Macao's Only SARS Patient Discharged from Hospital

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Macao's Only SARS Patient Discharged from Hospital

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The only patient with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in the Macao Special Administrative Region was discharged from the Government Hospital of Macao Sundayafter 21 days of isolation treatment.

The patient, a 29-year-old Macao resident, was sent directly tothe 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 beenemployed in Zhuhai, south China's Guangdong Province, which neighbors Macao across a land checkpoint. He began to have a feverand 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.

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