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UK hospital confirm ANOTHER Briton is being tested for deadly Ebola virus
EXPRESS-UK
Helen Barratt
January 3, 2015 15:41 GMT
The patient, from south Gloucestershire, has arrived at the Great Western Hospital in Swindon where they will be kept in isolation while being tested for the disease.
The patient, who is yet to be named, recently spent time in West Africa.
A spokeswoman for Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust said: "The trust is awaiting the results of the sample, which is being screened for a variety of infectious diseases prevalent in the affected countries, one of which is Ebola.
"The risk to local people, other patients or visitors to the hospital is very low. It is important to remember that contact with blood or other body fluids is needed for Ebola to be transmitted from one person to another.
"As a precaution the patient is being kept in isolation until blood test results are available."
South West Ambulance Service’s hazardous area response team (HART) transported the patient to hospital.
A spokeswoman for the ambulance service said: "We can confirm the hazardous area reponse team transported a patient into Great Western Hospital.
"That patient has recently returned from West Africa and has made complaints of feeling unwell.
"HART carried out all standard procedures to make the patient safe whilst they were transported."
It is understood the patient has recently flown into the UK from South Africa after previously spending time in Ebola stricken Sierra Leone, according to the Swindon Advertiser.
The patient would be the second to be diagnosed with the deadly virus in Britain.
Pauline Cafferkey, a Scottish public health nurse who had been volunteering in the stricken Sierra Leone, has today been described as in a critical condition, after being diagnosed on Monday.
She is currently being treated in a quarantine tent at the Royal Free Hospital where she has agreed to be treated with an experimental drug which has no proof of working.
Staff at the Great Western Hospital carried out a drill to run through their response to receiving a patient with suspected Ebola last month.
The three hour test gives an idea of what is taking place at the hospital.
Procedures in place mean the patient is taken to the hospital’s A&E department to receive tests, by health staff wearing two pairs of gloves and a full face visor.
They are then cared for in an isolated room to minimise contact with other people while they are waiting for the results.
If the patient tests positive for Ebola arrangements will be made for the patient to be transferred to the high level isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in London, where Ms Cafferkey is currently being treated.
Earlier this week two patients, in Cornwall and Aberdeen, tested negative to the virus.
EXPRESS-UK
Helen Barratt
January 3, 2015 15:41 GMT
The patient, from south Gloucestershire, has arrived at the Great Western Hospital in Swindon where they will be kept in isolation while being tested for the disease.
The patient, who is yet to be named, recently spent time in West Africa.
A spokeswoman for Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust said: "The trust is awaiting the results of the sample, which is being screened for a variety of infectious diseases prevalent in the affected countries, one of which is Ebola.
"The risk to local people, other patients or visitors to the hospital is very low. It is important to remember that contact with blood or other body fluids is needed for Ebola to be transmitted from one person to another.
"As a precaution the patient is being kept in isolation until blood test results are available."
South West Ambulance Service’s hazardous area response team (HART) transported the patient to hospital.
A spokeswoman for the ambulance service said: "We can confirm the hazardous area reponse team transported a patient into Great Western Hospital.
"That patient has recently returned from West Africa and has made complaints of feeling unwell.
"HART carried out all standard procedures to make the patient safe whilst they were transported."
It is understood the patient has recently flown into the UK from South Africa after previously spending time in Ebola stricken Sierra Leone, according to the Swindon Advertiser.
The patient would be the second to be diagnosed with the deadly virus in Britain.
Pauline Cafferkey, a Scottish public health nurse who had been volunteering in the stricken Sierra Leone, has today been described as in a critical condition, after being diagnosed on Monday.
She is currently being treated in a quarantine tent at the Royal Free Hospital where she has agreed to be treated with an experimental drug which has no proof of working.
Staff at the Great Western Hospital carried out a drill to run through their response to receiving a patient with suspected Ebola last month.
The three hour test gives an idea of what is taking place at the hospital.
Procedures in place mean the patient is taken to the hospital’s A&E department to receive tests, by health staff wearing two pairs of gloves and a full face visor.
They are then cared for in an isolated room to minimise contact with other people while they are waiting for the results.
If the patient tests positive for Ebola arrangements will be made for the patient to be transferred to the high level isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in London, where Ms Cafferkey is currently being treated.
Earlier this week two patients, in Cornwall and Aberdeen, tested negative to the virus.