- The woman is in an isolation room where she has under the circumstances good – Dagbladet.no

- The woman is in an isolation room where she has under the circumstances good – Dagbladet.no

(Dagbladet): Department of infectious diseases department, Dag Kvale, chairman treatment of the Norwegian ebola infected woman today admitted the department at Oslo University Hospital (OUS), after being flown from Freetown in Sierra Leone.

– This is a very sophisticated, bright, nice but awful technical isolate the patient under the circumstances well and where we are in control of everything that comes in and out of the room.

questions about what options a woman has to communicate with the outside world, responding Kvale.

– She has telephone access, and there are windows in this room so she has a certain proximity to the outside world, said Kvale Dagbladet after the press conference.

– She has the ability to see and talk with the family. This is the absolute best conditions one can have as isolated, said Kvale in a pres conference at the hospital tonight.

– Low probability of infection

Kvale was asked if he had talked with the woman, and told when he comes with everything that goes on in the department.

Both he and the two others who were present at the press conference for OUS, Vice President Cathrine M. Lofthus and senior Espen Rostrup Nakstad was not worried that others would become infected woman.

– We are considering further infection from this patient as extremely low and unlikely, says Gundersen.

– She has not been in contact with anyone, nor shall it be, said Rostrup Nakstad.

In addition, underlined the hospital administration that health care professionals who treat women are trained and taught in such situations.

The department Kvale also explained how the conditions for the woman who is isolated.

– It’s not an air particle or a drop of water from the room without us knowing about it, he said.

No danger to others in the area

– We have been well prepared and well trained. We know what procedures to follow. Hospitalization has also been scheduled. We will now treat the patient and attend to the relatives and employees. There is no cause for concern for the others who are in hospital area when it comes to infection. We have good control, said Cathrine M. Lofthus at the press conference.

Kvam would not answer specific questions about the woman would survive.

– We can not say anything to or from the woman will survive, but we know that there is a sinister, viral fever. It is potentially a much better chance of survival with good treatment, said Kvam.

They also stressed how important it was that the woman was treated soon after symptoms.

Kvale also reported the experimental medicines OUS has been granted permission to import. He says it’s not a hundred percent sure that they get into drugs and that they must decide whether to use drugs to treat the patient.

He stressed that the effects of the drugs are not clinically proven.

– We have read the reports and literature, and the drugs have been through pre-clinical studies and we know about individual stories but it is different when they are used in the treatment of humans, said Kvam.