A British healthcare worker
who has tested positive for ebola has left Sierra Leone on a Royal Air Force
jet bound for the UK.
The unnamed man is being
flown to RAF Northolt near Heathrow from where he will be taken to an isolation
unit at the Royal Free Hospital in north London. The flight on a specially
equipped C17 plane will take about eight hours.
He is understood to have
been a volunteer at a clinic in the country's Kenema district.
Sky's Enda Brady said:
"Inside that aircraft will be an air transport isolator, a piece of
equipment that has been used several times in the past few years. The patient
will effectively be placed inside a bubble."
The Royal Free has the UK's
only high-level isolation unit comprising of a specially designed tent with
controlled ventilation, which has been on standby since the latest outbreak.
The Department of Health
said: "The UK has well-established and practised infection control
procedures for dealing with cases of imported infectious disease.
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