OMAHA, Neb.
Another health care worker who’s been diagnosed with Ebolaarrived on U.S. soil for treatment Saturday.
DR. MARTIN SALIA VIAYOUTUBE / UNITED METHODIST VIDEOS:”I took this job not because I wanted to, but I firmly believe that it was a calling and that God wanted me to.”
Salia, a Marylandresident who caught the disease while working as a surgeon in Sierra Leone, was transported to Nebraska Medical Center, one of four U.S. hospitals designated to treat Ebola patients. (Video viaWOWT)
Salia will be the third Ebola patient to be treated atNebraska Medical Center. The hospital previouslytreatedDr. Rick Sacra and freelance NBC cameraman Ashoka Mukpo, both of whom recovered from the disease.
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He’s also the 10th person to be treated for Ebola in the U.S. Eight of the other nine Ebola patients survived the virus that’s claimed 71 percent of those infected in West Africa, thanks in part to the U.S.’s more advanced medical system.
ACNN analystnotes Salia’s initial prognosis upon arrival isn’t good.
DR. SEEMA YASMIN:”We were told by spokespeople in Nebraska just this morning [that] this patient is the sickest of the Ebola patients that’s been transferred to the U.S. and been transferred to them.”
ButWJZ spoketo Salia’s family in Maryland earlier in the week, and they have faith thathe’ll pull through.
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Doctor with Ebola in Nebraska for treatment
