The Scottish nurse infected with Ebola has now been moved to London's Royal Free Hospital for a more intensive treatment on Tuesday, December 30.
Pauline Cafferkey has been transferred from Gartnavel Hospital in Glasgow, Scotland, to a specialist unit in London so she'll receive a much better treatment of her infection. She was the first person to be diagnosed of the virus in the United Kingdom, although another nurse William Pooley was the first to be treated. He was working in Sierra Leone when he contracted the disease and received his diagnoses there. He has since returned to one of the hardest-hit areas in West Africa to provide his services.
She was flown in using a Hercules plane of the Royal Air Force. She arrived in a quarantine tent and met with health workers wearing a PPE (personal protective equipment) who escorted her to the ambulance, which brought her to the hospital.
David Cameron, UK's prime minister assured the public that safety measures are in place and that their risk is very low.
However, it doesn't seem to remove the growing concern of airport screening. Cafferkey traveled from Sierra Leone to Morocco before boarding a plane to Heathrow. She was diagnosed a day after. According to one of the passengers, a doctor, those who are responsible for the screening process seem to be at a loss on what to do. They also didn't have enough test kits. Currently, the health authorities are reaching out to other co-passengers of her flights for monitoring. However, since she developed her first symptoms when she was already in Glasgow, the risk is low for them.
Meanwhile, according to her doctors, she is eating and drinking, though they didn't provide further details of her condition. The 39-year-old nurse who volunteered on a mission to Sierra Leone to help fight Ebola is expected to receive an experimental drug that is said to have been used comprehensively before but for other reasons and that it's safe to use.