British Man With Ebola On Flight Back To UK
A Briton who tested positive for ebola in Sierra Leone is evacuated from the country on a Royal Air Force jet.
Sky.com
Sunday 24 August 2014
A British healthcare worker who has tested positive for ebola has left Sierra Leone on a Royal Air Force jet bound for the UK.
The unnamed man is being flown to RAF Northolt near Heathrow from where he will be taken to an isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in north London. The flight on a specially equipped C17 plane will take about eight hours.
He is understood to have been a volunteer at a clinic in the country’s Kenema district.
Sky’s Enda Brady said: “Inside that aircraft will be an air transport isolator, a piece of equipment that has been used several times in the past few years. The patient will effectively be placed inside a bubble.”
The Royal Free has the UK’s only high-level isolation unit comprising of a specially designed tent with controlled ventilation, which has been on standby since the latest outbreak.
The Department of Health said: “The UK has well-established and practised infection control procedures for dealing with cases of imported infectious disease.
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