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STORYLINEContinuing coverage of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa
Ebola-Stricken Surgeon Dr. Martin Salia 'Extremely Critical'
A surgeon diagnosed with
Ebola in Sierra Leone is in an “extremely critical condition,” doctors
treating him in Nebraska said early Sunday. A jet carrying Dr. Martin
Salia landed in Omaha on Saturday, making him the 10th Ebola patient to
be treated on American soil and the third treated at the Nebraska
Medical Center.
“He is extremely ill. We
have multiple highly-trained specialists who are experts in their
fields targeting his most serious medical issues,” said Dr. Phil Smith,
medical director of the Biocontainment Unit at Nebraska Medical Center.
"This is an hour-by-hour situation.”
Salia - who was called a
"hero" by his son — was taken off the plane on a stretcher and loaded
onto a gurney encased in a plastic bubble and placed on an ambulance by
workers who wore yellow protective suits.
Salia, a native of
Sierra Leone and a legal U.S. resident, was living in that country and
working at a hospital when he was diagnosed Monday. Salia's wife and two
children live in the D.C. suburb of New Carrollton, Maryland, and on
Friday were making arrangements to go to Nebraska to support him. On
Friday, Salia's son told NBC News that his dad knew the risks of working in West Africa but was committed to doing his part.
The Ebola outbreak, the worst in recorded history, has killed more than 5,000 people in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.
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