Pauline Cafferkey, a nurse who contracted the deadly Ebola virus while
working in Sierra Leone in December 2014 and faced a misconduct hearing
over claims by a health body that she hid symptoms of the killer virus
on her return to the UK, was today rushed to the Queen Elizabeth
Hospital, Glasgow, Scotland with police escorts after allegedly showing
symptoms of the virus.
A spokeswoman for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said to Sun UK:
“Ms Cafferkey was admitted to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital
under routine monitoring by the infectious diseases team. She is
undergoing further investigations and her condition remains stable.”
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted:
“Sending my very best wishes to Pauline Cafferkey. She has already
suffered way too much – & all for trying to help others. Thoughts
with her.”
This is the fourth time Miss Cafferkey has become ill since contracting
the deadly Ebola virus in Sierra Leone after volunteering to help tackle
the outbreak in 2014.
She jetted back to to Scotland where she complained that she felt unwell
and had a high temperature and was in a critical condition at London’s
Royal Free Hospital in isolation for a month before she was discharged
at the end of January last year.
She was admitted again in October last year, where doctors discovered
she had meningitis caused by the Ebola disease before she was released
after she was passed fit.
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