Spanish priest with Ebola flown back to Madrid
MADRID - A Spanish priest who was diagnosed with the Ebola virus while working in Sierra Leone has been flown back to Spain and taken to a Madrid hospital.
Manuel Garcia Viejo, a medical director of the San Juan de Dios Hospital in the city of Lunsar in Sierra Leone, arrived on a medically equipped military plane shortly after 3am Monday.
He was transferred to the Carlos III hospital.
The Health Ministry said the 69-year-old expressed his desire to be transferred back to Spain after testing positive for the deadly virus.
