San Sebastián (EFE)
As confirmed to EFE by sources from the Basque Department of Health, Osakidetza has activated the protocol today due to the symptoms presented by the affected woman.
The Basque Government Ministry of Health has released a note announcing that the protocol has been activated that sets in motion the special resources of “high security and isolation” in the face of “the suspicion of a case of hemorrhagic fever”.
The woman is “stable”, admitted to the High Biological Safety Unit of the Donostia University Hospital, which Osakidetza has for patients with serious infectious diseases, and “waiting for the results” of tests that can confirm if she has a fever hemorrhagic as ebola, lassa, dengue or marburg.
The device, according to the Ministry, has been implemented by health professionals “in less than 24 hours” to “offer the best care” to the patient and “guarantee their isolation”, their “safety” and that of the team that cares for them.
The Donostia Hospital, in San Sebastián, is one of the seven Spanish hospitals that have a unit with special high-security and isolation resources for the treatment of this disease.