--- title: Ebola: Scottish Patient Flown To London description: A health care worker who recently returned to Scotland from Sierra Leone is being treated for the Ebola at Glasgow's Gartnavel Hospital canonical: https://time.com/3648857/ebola-glasgow-london/ author: Alexandra Sifferlin article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-29T19:20:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:41:40.569Z article:section: Health og:title: Ebola: Scottish Patient Flown To London og:description: A health care worker who recently returned to Scotland from Sierra Leone is being treated for the Ebola at Glasgow's Gartnavel Hospital og:url: https://time.com/3648857/ebola-glasgow-london/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt850bfbb469940111/6987696535ba6f523dc05646/ebola1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1963 og:image:height: 1104 og:image:alt: Ebola og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ebola: Scottish Patient Flown To London twitter:description: A health care worker who recently returned to Scotland from Sierra Leone is being treated for the Ebola at Glasgow's Gartnavel Hospital twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt850bfbb469940111/6987696535ba6f523dc05646/ebola1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Scottish Ebola Patient Flown to London > Sponsored content. 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Getty Images by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Dec 29, 2014 7:20 PM UTC A health worker who recently returned from Sierra Leone has been flown to London after being diagnosed with Ebola in Glasgow. The female aid worker, named by local media as Pauline Cafferkey, arrived late Sunday night to Glasgow Airport on a British Airways flight, having traveled from Sierra Leone to Casablanca and London before reaching Scotland. NHS Scotland, the country’s health care system, said in a [statement](http://news.scotland.gov.uk/News/Ebola-case-1414.aspx) it has rolled out its infectious disease protocol. “Scotland has been preparing for this possibility from the beginning of the outbreak in West Africa and I am confident that we are well prepared,” First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said in the statement. “We have the robust procedures in place to identify cases rapidly. Our health service also has the expertise and facilities to ensure that confirmed Ebola cases such as this are contained and isolated effectively minimising any potential spread of the disease.” The patient has been isolated and is receiving care in the Brownlee Unit for Infectious Diseases of Gartnavel Hospital. Per U.K. and Scottish protocol, the woman was transferred to another high-level isolation unit at London’s Royal Free hospital. ## Transcript [00:00] This is the first case we've diagnosed on British soil [00:03] and it's very sad for the patient. But it was caught [00:07] in Sierra Leone where, if you're a healthcare worker, [00:10] there is a risk. We put in a lot of training for our [00:14] workers. Nine days. Trained in York by the [00:18] military. And then a further week with other [00:20] international volunteers when they arrive in country. But [00:23] I must emphasize that because of the systems we have [00:26] in place of streaming and information giving on arrival. [00:31] And then this hotline to phone when the patients have [00:35] symptoms. 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