Dr. Nancy Writebol: The US Doctor that survived Ebola talks about possibility of returning to Africa

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">        <img alt="Nancy Writebol - August 2014 - BN News - BellaNaija.com 01" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-424603" height="450" src="http://www.bellanaija.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Nancy-Writebol-August-2014-BN-News-BellaNaija.com-01.jpg" width="600" /></span></div> <strong><div style="text-align: left;"> <strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </strong></div> </strong></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong>Dr. Nancy WhriteboI</strong> is a woman with a heart of gold.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The 59-year-old who was released on Tuesday from the <strong>Emory University Hospital</strong>, Atlanta, after being airlifted to the U.S. from Liberia, has her mind on Africa.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She was the other American, apart from <strong>Dr. Kent Brantley</strong>, to contract the deadly disease.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In an interview with <strong>Matt Lauer</strong> on the <a href="http://www.today.com/health/sons-ebola-patient-nancy-writebol-shes-happy-be-healed-1D80099874" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Today</a> show today Friday 22nd August 2014, her sons reveal that and more.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Writebol sons say their mum is already talking about what she wants to do next, which includes possibly returning to Africa to continue ministering to people.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“She’s still thinking about it,” her son Jeremy told Lauer.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Jeremy added that her parents have deep compassion for those in need, “Africa is still in their heart and the</span></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="" name="more"></a>suffering and the people in western Africa is still very deep for them.”<br /><br /></span></div>

Dr. Nancy Writebol: The US Doctor that survived Ebola talks about possibility of returning to Africa

           Dr. Nancy WhriteboI  is a woman with a heart of gold. The 59-year-old who was released on Tuesday from the  Emory Unive...

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Good News: Four more Ebola patients discharged – Health Minister

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-9123675465399533183" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 670px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbGaVy5JUG5BP9ungzJJDiUYiD-60Up3vFrZHjjLg8UnXEBU0pX93v87ItVjO8A-2UcxmBQA-DTnEOjjNaWaEuNLv73GW1WfsZDuzENJFyO-uGpTxhGEQ0Z1zkLbZAgHLEtWkqj_4vtn4/s1600/NNPC+shuts+clinic+after+suspected+Ebola+case+admitted.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbGaVy5JUG5BP9ungzJJDiUYiD-60Up3vFrZHjjLg8UnXEBU0pX93v87ItVjO8A-2UcxmBQA-DTnEOjjNaWaEuNLv73GW1WfsZDuzENJFyO-uGpTxhGEQ0Z1zkLbZAgHLEtWkqj_4vtn4/s1600/NNPC+shuts+clinic+after+suspected+Ebola+case+admitted.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="640" /></span></a></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Four more patients have been certified clean and discharged from the Ebola Isolation center in Lagos after undergoing treatment for the deadly disease. The four patients include two male doctors, the nurse who had earlier escaped from the isolation center and ran to Enugu and a female patient who was on admission at the time Patrick Sawyer was hospitalized at the First Consultant Hospital.<br /><br />The news of their discharge was disclosed in a statement released today by the Minister of Health, Prof Onyebuchi Chukwu and signed by his his Special Assistant on Media and Communication, Mr. Dan Nwomeh. Read parts of the statement after the cut...</span><blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“The Minister of Health Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu has announced that four additional confirmed cases of Ebola Virus Disease who have been managed successfully and are now disease free have been discharged home today. They include two male medical doctors and one female nurse. The three participated in the treatment of the index case while the fourth person was a female patient at the time the index case was on admission. This brings to five the total number of patients diagnosed with Ebola Virus Disease who have now been discharged from hospital.”</span></blockquote> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On Saturday August 16th, the Health Minister announced that the first Nigerian to be diagnosed of EVD, a female doctor, had been discharged after she was treated and certified cured.<br /><br />The Minister also stated that the total number of cases of the Ebola Virus Disease in Nigeria remained at 12 while the number of deaths from the disease was four and that the number of people under surveillance in Lagos is 189 while in Enugu is 6.</span><div style="clear: both;"> </div> </div> <div class="post-footer" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin: 20px -2px 0px; padding: 5px 10px;"> </div> </div>

Good News: Four more Ebola patients discharged – Health Minister

Four more patients have been certified clean and discharged from the Ebola Isolation center in Lagos after undergoing treatment for the ...

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