A Cuban doctor treated for Ebola in a Geneva hospital has made a full recovery and has left Switzerland to be reunited with his family, the hospital said on Saturday.
The 43-year-old man was one of 256 Cuban doctors and nurses who went to West Africa to treat patients from the worst outbreak of the virus on record, which has killed more than 6,000 people.
He had arrived in Geneva on November 20 and was taken by ambulance to Geneva University Hospital under police escort. He is so far the first Ebola patient to be treated in Switzerland.
He was placed in a specially prepared negative pressure room in a building that is detached from the rest of the hospital and was treated by a specialist in infectious diseases.
The hospital has a long tradition of treating patients suffering from hemorrhagic fevers similar to Ebola, including the Marburg virus, the cantonal doctor Jacques-André Romand said on the man’s arrival. There was no risk to the Swiss population, he added.
The latest figures from the World Health Organization show Ebola has killed nearly 6,200 people, mainly in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, since it was confirmed in the region earlier this year.
Source: Startribune
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