The only patient with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in the Macao Special Administrative Region was discharged from the Government Hospital of Macao Sunday after 21 days of isolation treatment.
The patient, a 29-year-old Macao resident, was sent directly to the quarantine camp set up in Taipa Island of Macao for another two weeks of observation after his discharge from hospital.
So far there is no other suspected SARS patient in the designated SARS hospital, said Lei Chin Ion, head of the hospital.
The man was an air-conditioner maintenance worker, who had been employed in Zhuhai, south China's Guangdong Province, which neighbors Macao across a land checkpoint. He began to have a fever and cough at the beginning of May, and went back to Macao to seek medical help in the Government Hospital on May 8, when initial pneumonia symptoms were found.
The hospital has conducted successful treatment on the first SARS patient in Macao with the medical experience borrowed from Hong Kong and the mainland, said Lei.
All the people including eight health care workers who had taken quarantine for contacting the patient before the diagnosis of SARS have been excluded of SARS infection.
(Xinhua News Agency June 1, 2003)
|
