Norwegian doctor discharged after recovery from Ebola infection
Xinhua, October 21, 2014 Adjust font size:
A Norwegian doctor, who was infected with the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone, has been discharged from hospital after recovery from the deadly disease, doctors at Oslo's Ulleval hospital said on Monday.
After two weeks of medical treatment, doctors at the hospital's infectious diseases department concluded that the patient, Silje Michalsen, has recovered.
"I am healthy and not contagious and I do not feel as if I have had Ebola," said Michalsen at a press conference on Monday at the hospital.
Michalsen, a doctor from the the Harstad hospital in northern Norway, had been working for Doctors Without Borders in Sierra Leone for months when she developed a fever on Oct. 2 and tested Ebola positive the next day.
Michalsen said that she was happy with her fast evacuation on Oct. 6 from Sierra Leone to Norway for treatment.
The two local colleagues of Michalsen, who were also tested Ebola positive at the same time, had already died while a third one from outside of the West African country survived.
Michalsen said that she wanted to go back to work for Ebola patients in Sierra Leone as soon as possible. Endit
