Unit responsiveness of Pampulha in Belo Horizonte, which was isolated after receiving patient with suspected Ebola
The Health Ministry announced on Wednesday, 11, the existence of a patient hospitalized on suspicion of infection by Ebola. The man, 46, was hospitalized yesterday in a drive responsiveness of Pampulha in Belo Horizonte, at 20 hours. He had returned to Brazil on 6 November a trip to Guinea, Africa.
Two days after returning to the country, the patient began to experience symptoms such as high fever, muscle pain and headache. "Immediately after the identification of the suspect, the patient was isolated in the unit and began the adoption of national protocol established for suspected cases of Ebola as the communication to the State Department of Health and the Ministry of Health," the ministry said in a statement .
The government also reported that the health unit where the man is hospitalized is not receiving new patients. In addition, all professionals who had contact with the patient being monitored.
To follow the security protocol, the patient should be referred today in an aircraft of the Brazilian Air Force to the National Institute of Infectious Diseases Evandro Chagas in Rio de Janeiro
(From the Newsroom)
