WASHINGTON, October 29 (RIA Novosti) – US President Barack Obama announced about his plans to welcome the doctors, coming back or going to the Ebola-hit West African countries.
"Tomorrow I will have a chance to meet with doctors and public health workers, who have already returned from fighting this disease in West Africa or who are about to go, not only to say thank you to them and give them encouragement, but to make sure that we are getting input from them," Obama told journalists Tuesday.
Last Friday, Obama received healthcare worker Nina Pham in the White House. Pham contracted Ebola after caring for Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the United States. Pham was cured from the disease and was tested negative for Ebola virus five times before meeting the president.
On Tuesday, Amber Vinson, the other nurse that contracted Ebola after caring for Duncan, was declared Ebola-free.
According to the latest guidelines of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), healthcare workers returning from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea will be monitored for three weeks by public health authorities.
More than 4,900 people have died from the current Ebola outbreak that started in Guinea in December 2013, an overall number of cases has amounted to 10,141, according to recent World Health Organization estimates.
