Another physician who contracted Ebola while treating patients in West Africa is being brought to the United States for treatment.
Dr. Martin Salia, a Sierra Leone surgeon who has permanent U.S. residency, is on his way to the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Neb. Salia is critically ill, according to Reuters. Salia’s wife, an American citizen who resides in Maryland, requested — and is reimbursing expenses from — his evacuation by the U.S. government.
He is the chief medical officer at the United Methodist Church’s Kissy Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
“Although the patient’s exact condition won’t be available until doctors here evaluate him after he arrives, information coming from the team caring for him in Sierra Leone indicates he is critically ill — possibly sicker than the first patients successfully treated in the United States,” the hospital said in a statement.
More than 5,100 people have died from Ebola in West Africa, according to the World Health Organization.
Salia will be the 10th person to be treated in the U.S. for the virus.
