MONROVIA, LIBERIA — Missionary doctor Rick Sacra working for SIM USA in Liberia tested positive for the Ebola virus and was flown to Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha on Sept. 5 for advanced treatment.
The American doctor was treating obstetrics patients at SIM’s ELWA hospital in Monrovia. He was not treating Ebola patients in ELWA’s Ebola isolation unit, a facility separate from the main hospital on the missions organization’s 136-acre campus. It is not yet known how the doctor contracted the virus specifically.
Upon onset of the symptoms, the doctor immediately isolated himself and was transferred to the ELWA Ebola 2 Care Center and received care until his departure to Nebraska.
“My heart was deeply saddened but my faith was not shaken when I learned another of our missionary doctors contracted Ebola,” said Bruce Johnson, president of SIM USA. “As a global mission we are surrounding our missionary with prayer, as well as our Liberian SIM/ELWA colleagues who continue fighting the Ebola epidemic in Liberia.”
For more information, visit www.simusa.org/ebolacrisis.
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