The state of health of the nursing assistant has worsened in the last hours as reported Thursday the brother of the patient , visibly affected at the gates Hospital Carlos III de Madrid. The patient’s brother told stressed The Sixth , which Teresa has been intubated and lung problems . Currently, he has said, is treated by some 14 doctors.
In turn, explained that the medical team going to try another drug to try to improve your health . Shortly after was confirmed Yolanda Fuentes, deputy director of the hospital, asserting that “ clinical situation has worsened “, but that “ express prohibition of the patient ” could not give more information, or your state or the treatments below.
Sources close to environment nurse did not want to detail Pres Europe s if worsening or no, but stressed that “not right” .
Shortly before the president of the Community of Madrid, Ignacio Gonzalez, in an interview in Onda Cero claimed that the treatment is being applied, the serum obtained Sister Patience, it seems that for now is causing the patient is “not only stable” , but is allowing “you can find a little better because it looks like the percentage of virus that has not increased “.
Teresa Romero was part of the team that attended the missionary García Viejo , died from Ebola in late September after being repatriated to Spain. He introduced himself as a volunteer to treat and went to her room twice, one for collecting material for another diaper change. Being treated with plasma from a nun, Sister Patience, who overcame the disease.
Javier Limón, husband of Teresa Romero, no symptoms Romero has confirmed that not warned that he had been part of the team that had treated the missionary was the first time the family doctor. Also remember the face with a glove having touched while the special suit took off I was wearing, as confirmed Dr. Germán Ramírez of Internal Medicine, Hospital La Paz. It also ensures that he learned of his infection Internet, via mobile phone, when he was entered.
six others are in hospital Carlos III with the possibility of have this virus, after Wednesday Three inputs and two high occurring.
Entered and observation
The Carlos III hospital is the reference center and its facilities sixth floor ( is also enabling the fifth , for if there were more cases) enters persons likely to have been infected. By “contact risk” are currently six people (included Teresa Romero) on the ground of “active surveillance”:
- Javier Limón , husband of Teresa Romero. Do not have any symptoms and is under observation by direct contact with the patient. This will be for 21 days (incubation period of the virus), as reported by the deputy director of the Carlos III, Yolanda Fuentes. The affected can not be any analysis until you show early symptoms as Ebola has a period in which the number of viruses in the body is so low that it can hardly be detected with tests. Besides, he is the prime suspect of having the virus because of its proximity to Romero.
- Two doctors. This is the Doctor Primary Care from the ambulance Alcorcon who treated Teresa Romero and a doctor Hospital Alcorcón , who treated her at first, who entered Wednesday night for observation and are asymptomatic.
- A doctor. have entered for “contact risk” this Thursday. It will be in the hospital Give you “to closely monitor” , but is “asymptomatic”.
- A nurse. also Joined the Wednesday night and Spanish missionaries attended returnees contagious Ebola. It will be submitted in the next few hours the first analysis to reveal in the first instance if you are infected with the virus or not.
- A nurse . Also worked on the team that treated priests and is awaiting a first test of the virus.
Discharged
- The engineer who arrived from Nigeria , whose name has not transpired, was negative in the first and second test Ebola , she underwent 72 hours apart, so we proceeded to his discharge on Wednesday night. This engineer arrived from the African country with a slight fever and was admitted as a precaution, but it is believed that a fever could be malaria.
- Nurse priests attended. Another professionals who worked with the deceased priests, although at no time had direct contact with they. After be negative in both tests was discharged on Wednesday night. Was the least sopechoso case, as was admitted with diarrhea (one of the symptoms of Ebola) but not with fever.
The Ministry of Health has confirmed that there are 54 people in surveillance have been in direct contact with the auxiliary nurse infected or have been in the care of the deceased missionaries.
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