The Hospitaller Order of St. John of God (OHSJD) announced today that it will send a medical team to reopen the hospital San Jose, Monrovia (Liberia), where he was repatriated on Thursday, the Spanish priest Miguel Pajares infected with the Ebola virus.
In the hospital there are still two religious infected with hemorrhagic virus, after death, this morning, the Congolese nun Chantal Pascaline.
The San José Hospital in Monrovia, closed from August 1, after the death of its director, Patrick Nshamdzea, is in a "very worrying" situation, according to a statement, the NGO Juan City, belonging to said religious order which states that the state of the Ghanaian religious Combey Georges has worsened and the Guinean sister Patience Melgar still serious.
Both are being served by the volunteer nurse William Ekeurm, Cameroon, and a nursing assistant.
The NGO will ensure that you are arranging to send the center of a healthcare team that allows reopen, as currently there are no open hospital is providing health services to the Liberian population, except unit Ebola located in the ELWA Hospital, where they are deriving all cases of this infection.
"We refuse to accept that Ebola can not be beat, and I say this from the rigor that we have all we're working on it," said José María Viadero, director Juan City.
Viadero added note that they are working "around the clock to send a medical team that can get to the hospital as soon as possible to meet the people who are there."
The organization also reports that the health of the priest Pajares and sister Juliana Bonoha, who were transferred on Thursday from Liberia to Spain in a medicalized aircraft made available by the Spanish Government, "is stable and there has been no change of their clinical condition, "but did not elaborate at the express wish of the patients.
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday raised the Ebola outbreak in the category of "public health emergency of international concern", when there were 1,779 cases with 961 deaths identified, at least 150 of them health workers.
Along with Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea Conakry are the countries most affected by the outbreak of Ebola.
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