Ebola Virus Spanish update-Spain have flown home a Priest, Miguel Pajares in a medically-equipped Airbus 310 .The Priest had tested positive for the virus.
The priest, Miguel Pajares, will be treated at a hospital in Madrid after he arrives but public health general director Mercedes Vinuesa did not tell reporters which one.
It's the first time that someone infected with Ebola will be treated in Spain.
Pajares is one of three missionaries being kept in isolation at the San Jose de Monrovia Hospital in Liberia who have tested positive for the virus, Spain's San Juan de Dios hospital order, a Catholic humanitarian group that runs hospitals around the world.
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It was reported that the Priest, Pajares, 75, remains very weak and in isolation since Friday along with five other people in the Monrovia hospital. Three of the six tested negative for the disease.A Spanish nun was also flown home to Spain with the Priest.The latest is that after tests,the nun so far has not tested positive for the Ebola virus,but showed signs of typhoid and fever.She is being monitored closely.
The Priest and nun were driven to the hospital in a special convoy of police cars and police motor bikes followed by an ambulance.
Pajares had been caring for the hospital's director, Patrick Nshamdze, who died on Saturday. A first screening came back negative, so the priest continued attending to Nshamdze, who was eventually diagnosed with the disease.
The repatriation is something Pajares said he wanted. "I'd like to go back [to Spain] because we are having a very bad experience here. We are abandoned and we are not satisfied. We want to go to Spain and be treated as people, as God dictates," the priest said Tuesday to EFE. “I know it is very complicated because a plane would have to be chartered and that’s not easy," he said humbly in a weak voice. "I'm in really bad condition. I am unable to lift his head," he told the news agency.
El Pais & Associated Press contributed to this report.