A nurse who contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone has made a complete recovery and been discharged from hospital.
Pauline Cafferkey, who has family in Dungloe, is now free of the virus after more than three weeks in hospital, where she was critically ill for a time.
She said she is “happy to be alive” and thanked staff at the Royal Free Hospital in London who she said saved her life.
Ms Cafferkey was diagnosed with Ebola after returning to Glasgow and was initially admitted to the city’s Gartnavel Hospital on 29 December, then transferred to the Royal Free the following day.
The nurse, from Cambuslang in South Lanarkshire, had volunteered with Save The Children at the Ebola Treatment Centre in Kerry Town before returning to the UK.
