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British doctor with Ebola returns to UK for specialist treatment
A British doctor who tested positive for Ebola while working in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has returned to the UK for specialist treatment. The Department of Health and Social Care said on Thursday that the patient, whose identity is unknown, was brought home on a medical evacuation flight. They are being cared for in a specialised high-level isolation unit at the Royal Free hospital in Hampstead, north London. A humanitarian organisation sent the doctor to DR Congo to help respond to the outbreak, the second largest on record. It is the first case involving a British national…
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