News making the rounds right now is Dr. Martin Salia, an American resident who was infected with Ebola in Sierra Leone, has died, the hospital treating him has announced, this heart breaking news not too long ago.
He was taken to the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) on Saturday, November 15 for treatment and the hospital announced yesterday that the doctor was in “extremely critical condition.”
The hospital UNMC announced this afternoon, vian their Twitter page that the doctor had passed on. The tweet read:
“We are sorry to announce that the 3rd Ebola patient, Dr. Martin Salia, has passed away as a result of the advanced symptoms of the disease.”
“Dr. Salia was extremely critical when he arrived here, & unfortunately, despite our best efforts, we weren’t able to save him.”
DR. Salia, who was a citizen of Sierra Leone but married to an American indigene, is the second person to die of Ebola on US soil after Liberian Thomas Duncan lost his life to the disease at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital on October 8.
He was taken to the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) on Saturday, November 15 for treatment and the hospital announced yesterday that the doctor was in “extremely critical condition.”
The hospital UNMC announced this afternoon, vian their Twitter page that the doctor had passed on. The tweet read:
“We are sorry to announce that the 3rd Ebola patient, Dr. Martin Salia, has passed away as a result of the advanced symptoms of the disease.”
“Dr. Salia was extremely critical when he arrived here, & unfortunately, despite our best efforts, we weren’t able to save him.”
DR. Salia, who was a citizen of Sierra Leone but married to an American indigene, is the second person to die of Ebola on US soil after Liberian Thomas Duncan lost his life to the disease at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital on October 8.
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