Save the Children have vowed that “no stone will be left unturned” in its investigation into how a British nurse contracted Ebola whilst working in Sierra Leone.
Pauline Cafferkey, from South Lanarkshire, had been treating Ebola patients in Kerrytown, Sierra Leone, when she contracted the disease.
She was diagnosed with Ebola in Glasgow a week ago, before being moved to a Royal Free Hospital in north London where her condition has deteriorated in recent days.
In a statement on 3 January, the hospital said:
“The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is sorry to announce that the condition of Pauline Cafferkey has gradually deteriorated over the past two days and is now critical.”
In an interview with the BBC, Save the Children’s Sierra Leone Director Rob MacGillavray said that the charity were doing all they could to determine how Cafferkey became infected with the disease to avoid any similar situations in the future.
He explained:
“Because of this very serious event we have put in an extraordinary review to ensure that we do everything, leave no stone unturned, to be able to as far as possible identify the source of this infection.”
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