The Nebraska Medical Center is expected to receive its third Ebola patient, as teams prepare to airlift a physician from Sierra Leone to the Omaha-based hospital.
The air ambulance team will evaluate the patient in Sierra Leone and determine if he is stable enough to transport, according to a CNN report. If he is, he should arrive in Omaha for treatment sometime Saturday.
The potential patient is a Sierra Leone national and a permanent resident in the United States, according to a report. He is a surgeon, but it is unknown if he was treating Ebola patients in the West African nation.
Sierra Leone has been in the thick of the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa since it started earlier this year. The virus has claimed the lives of 1,169 people in that nation alone, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Nebraska Medical Center has successfully treated two other Ebola patients: Rick Sacra, MD, an American missionary, and Ashkoka Mukpo, an American journalist. Both Dr. Sacra and Mr. Mukpo beat the deadly virus and were released from the hospital.