Ebola sufferer in Scottish hospital

A healthcare worker who has been diagnosed with ebola after returning from Sierra Leone is in a stable condition in hospital in Glasgow.

The patient flew back to the UK via Casablanca and London Heathrow before arriving at Glasgow Airport at around 11.30pm on Sunday on a British Airways flight.

She was admitted to hospital early yesterday morning after feeling feverish and was placed into isolation in the Brownlee Unit for Infectious Diseases at Gartnavel Hospital at 7.50am.

Health officials are tracing the 71 other people who were on the British Airways flight from London to Glasgow with the woman.

The patient is thought to have had contact with only one other person in Scotland apart from the other passengers on the flight and hospital staff.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the risk to the general public is “extremely low to the point of negligible”.

According to UK and Scottish protocol for anyone diagnosed with ebola, the patient will be transferred to the high-level isolation unit in the Royal Free Hospital, north London, as soon as possible.

This is where the facilities, staff, and systems are in place to ensure the best quality and safest care.