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Valencia / Madrid, 17 ago.- Epidemiological studies carried out in the Institute of Health Carlos III in Madrid, man of Nigerian origin, who yesterday joined the Sant Joan Hospital of Alicante with symptoms to have Ebola, were negative, so it is not infected by the virus of this disease.
This has been confirmed Efe sources Ministry of Health , which clarified that the patient will not make counter-analysis, as it is not proven that he has had contact with possible infected.
patient is a Nigerian citizen who yesterday went to the emergency room of General Hospital of Alicante with characteristic symptoms of Ebola disease, such as high fever, malaise, vomiting and bleeding.
With these clinical symptoms, the responsible physicians chose to send him to hospital de Sant Joan, a reference to the disease in the province of Alicante.
Meanwhile, the Department of Health launched the protocol provided for the cases of patients infected with virus suspected it could be a case of Ebola and to prevent contagion.
The transfer of the patient from one hospital to another took place in a specially prepared and ambulance extreme measures of health security, with special clothing for medical staff to prevent any contact.
The man was admitted and isolated in one of the floors of the Hospital de Sant Joan, while he practiced the relevant epidemiological evidence . Throughout the night the patient was stable.
When to go to hospital, the Nigerian man was accompanied by a woman who has been treated as a patient in either hospitals because no symptoms being sick.
Samples taken man were sent yesterday to the Institute of Health Carlos III, Madrid, to determine the type of disease and test Ebola done has been negative.
At all times, practitioners of Sant Joan Hospital who have cared for this patient have taken protective measures to avoid direct contact with the patient.
Sources in the Ministry of Health have highlighted that launched the Ebola protocol preemptively before a characteristic symptomatology and to avoid possible infection in the population and the medical staff attending him.
The same sources have indicated that, in view of the results provided by the Instituto de Salud Carlos III, the protocol has been disabled Ebola, although the patient remains hospitalized and isolated in a hospital ward.
From this time hospital doctors will be the ones to decide when leaving the isolation function of the disease with, although it no longer is a public health issue but a patient, so that more data were not provided.
As a result of this case finally Ebola ruled the Federation of Associations for the Defence of Public Health (FADSP) today warned that while the virus was controlled at Africa , there is a possibility to reach Spain and, therefore, has requested that the hospital Carlos III, dependent hospital stays La Paz , Madrid, as a reference center, with adequate staffing.
After the alert for Alicante, said federation stresses the importance of maintaining at least a reference center for the control and treatment of these patients, optimize care and minimize the risk of spreading the virus.
At the political level, the United ERC (EU) announced today that prompted the urgent hearing this month of August in the Valencian parliament Minister of Health, Manuel Llombart, to explain the procedures and actions taken in this case.
(Reuters)
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