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UK Ebola nurse in 'stable' condition in hospital | |
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A Scots nurse who was treated for Ebola is in a stable condition after being taken to hospital under police escort. | |
Pauline Cafferkey, 40, was admitted to Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital after being taken from her home in South Lanarkshire at 09:30. | |
She is undergoing routine monitoring by the Infectious Diseases Team and remains in a stable condition. | |
Ms Cafferkey contracted Ebola while working as part of a UK team in Sierra Leone in 2014. | |
A spokeswoman for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said: "Ms Cafferkey was admitted to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital under routine monitoring by the Infectious Diseases Team. | |
"She is undergoing further investigations and her condition remains stable." | |
Paramedics arrived at the nurse's flat in Halfway, Cambuslang, on Thursday morning. | |
Residents told the BBC that an ambulance, escorted by police cars left the flats on Lightburn Road, at about 09:30. | |
Police confirmed that officers had "assisted in the transfer of a patient" on Thursday morning. | |
'Suffered too much' | |
Following news that Ms Cafferkey had been admitted to hospital, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted: "Sending my very best wishes to Pauline Cafferkey. She has already suffered way too much - & all for trying to help others. Thoughts with her." | |
Ms Cafferkey contracted Ebola while working as part of a UK team at the Kerry Town Ebola treatment centre in Sierra Leone. | |
She spent almost a month in isolation at the Royal Free hospital in London at the beginning of 2015 after the virus was detected when she arrived back in the UK. | |
Ms Cafferkey was later discharged after apparently making a full recovery, and in March 2015 returned to work as a public health nurse at Blantyre Health Centre in South Lanarkshire. | |
But it was later discovered that the virus was still present in her body, and she was readmitted to the same London hospital in October 2015. | |
She again recovered, before being treated at the Royal Free for a third time in February of this year due to a further complication related to her initial Ebola infection. | |
More recently, the nurse faced a number of misconduct charges by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). | |
These were for allegedly allowing a wrong temperature to be recorded during the screening process at Heathrow on her arrival back in the UK from Sierra Leone in 2014. | |
The NMC's conduct and competence panel dismissed all charges at a hearing in Edinburgh last month after being told that Ms Cafferkey had been impaired by illness. |