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(British) Nurse who contracted Ebola released from hospital
Source: The Observer
Nurse who contracted Ebola released from hospital
Lin Jenkins
The Observer, Saturday 24 January 2015 19.19 GMT
The British nurse who almost died after contracting Ebola while volunteering in Sierra Leone has been discharged from hospital after making a full recovery.
Pauline Cafferkey said she was “happy to be alive” as she thanked staff at the Royal Free Hospital in London who she said saved her life.
Doctors had described her condition as “critical” during the three weeks she received treatment for the deadly virus and her family and friends were preparing for the worst. Cafferkey admited that then she had felt like “giving up”, but was now looking forward to returning to “normal life” and had no plans to go back to Africa.
The 39-year-old nurse was diagnosed with Ebola after returning to Glasgow last month and was admitted to the city’s Gartnavel hospital on December 29 before being transferred the next day to the Royal Free. She had been working with Save the Children at the Ebola treatment centre in Kerry Town before returning to the UK.
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Lin Jenkins
The Observer, Saturday 24 January 2015 19.19 GMT
The British nurse who almost died after contracting Ebola while volunteering in Sierra Leone has been discharged from hospital after making a full recovery.
Pauline Cafferkey said she was “happy to be alive” as she thanked staff at the Royal Free Hospital in London who she said saved her life.
Doctors had described her condition as “critical” during the three weeks she received treatment for the deadly virus and her family and friends were preparing for the worst. Cafferkey admited that then she had felt like “giving up”, but was now looking forward to returning to “normal life” and had no plans to go back to Africa.
The 39-year-old nurse was diagnosed with Ebola after returning to Glasgow last month and was admitted to the city’s Gartnavel hospital on December 29 before being transferred the next day to the Royal Free. She had been working with Save the Children at the Ebola treatment centre in Kerry Town before returning to the UK.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/24/ebola-pauline-cafferkey-recovery-discharge
