The religious with Ebola died three days after being repatriated – Newspaper

The religious with Ebola died three days after being repatriated – Newspaper

Friday, September 26, 2014

Religious Manuel García Viejo months ago at the Hospital San Juan de Dios, Lunsar, in Sierra Leone, where he was.

Without giving time for the medical services of Madrid locate a specific drug, although experimental, to treat infection with Ebola who suffered , yesterday died in the capital of Spain Manuel García Viejo , 69, who was diagnosed with infection hemorráfico virus a week ago in the San Juan de Dios Hospital, Lunsar (Sierrra Leone), where was medical director. Hepatic and renal failure, which added to the impairment of other vital organs, ended the life of the religious , who came to Spain from Sierra Leone Monday , and in serious condition. As with fellow religious Miguel Pajares, died of Ebola in Madrid on August 12, Garcia’s body Viejo will be cremated immediately.

The Order of St. John of God, to which the deceased belonged 52 years, declared mourning and disseminated details of special religious, whom he described as “good-natured in the forms” and tireless in his devotion to medical care in Africa. Shortly before the death of García Viejo, the Government announced the fate of 162,000 euros San José Hospital, Monrovia, Liberia, belonging to the Order of St. John of God, where he served Pajares, in order to support the reopening of center to be spent on treatment of Ebola.

The epidemic, meanwhile, continues to add victims in a proportion reconfirms that is out of control.

The World Organization Health Organization (WHO) raised yesterday 2.917 the official death toll of a total of 6,263 patients. The virus kills 46% of those infected. Fear, founded, that these data reflect only a part of reality, motivated yesterday that the President of Sierra Leone, Ernest Bai Koroma, repeat the experience of last weekend and declared quarantined three provinces, in that 1.2 million people live. Confinement , which yesterday began to be answered by the affected population, accompanied, again, a massive door to door in which thousands of informants recruited by the government try to detect patients who have not come to hospitals. This measure identified in the previous quarantine more than 200 patients who had not come to the health centers. They also found 70 bodies of deaths from Ebola had not been buried, a circumstance which is a high risk of viral infection.

Another sign of slippage with the epidemic advances is provided by the high number of doctors and nurses who died in the areas of infection – 208 until yesterday -., which highlights the deplorable conditions in which they are working

For all Some agencies, including the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta (USA) (CDC acronym), plotted surveys on actual numbers affected could reach epidemic affecting the West African “if nothing is done” fast and in the right way. The next January, the CDC said the outbreak could reach the “million” affected. WHO downgraded the outlook to 20,000 infected.