WATCH: Fri, Oct 17: Before Nina Pham departed Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas for the National Institute of Health’s Clinical Center on Thursday, she was visited by her treating physician, Dr. Gary Weinstein, who recorded his conversation with her before she was discharged.
TORONTO – The first nurse to be diagnosed with Ebola after treating an infected Liberian man at a Dallas hospital was on Thursday flown to Maryland where she is now receiving treatment.
Nina Pham was seen for the first time since her diagnosis in a video shot in her Dallas hospital room and posted online by the hospital’s parent company to YouTube.
“Come to Maryland, everybody,” said Pham, laughing into the camera before wiping away tears with a tissue handed to her by an attendant in full protective gear.
The footage was shot by Pham’s treating physician Gary Weinstein as he visited her for one last time before her transfer.
“I love you guys,” Pham is heard saying. “We love you Nina,” Weinstein replied.
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Pham was transported from the hospital by ambulance and escorted onto an executive jet in Dallas. The 26-year-old was transported to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Centre in Bethesda, about 56 kilometres from Frederick Municipal Airport, where she will be treated in a specialized isolation unit.
WATCH: Dr. Anthony Fauci said Nina Pham will be released when she is well enough and free of the Ebola virus. Pham was transferred to the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland on Thursday night.
The agency said staff specializing in infectious disease and critical care will treat the nurse at the isolation unit, one of four in the U.S.
The magnitude of the Ebola outbreak continues to grow in Africa; the World Health Organization forecast the death toll would surpass 4,500 by the end of the week.
WATCH: Obama says he may appoint an Ebola “czar” to head the administration’s response to the virus. The first Dallas nurse diagnosed with the disease, is now being treated at the National Institutes of Health near Washington. Mark Albert is in Bethesda.
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