The American girl of Egyptian origin Mariam Essam Fawzi, 12, who was recorded as the first case infected with H1N1 known as swine flu, left the Abbasseya Fever Hospital on Friday after she has fully recovered. The hospital continued to receive other cases transferred from Cairo Airport on suspicion of being infected with the epidemic, in addition to more cases on suspicion of avian flu.
Al-Masry Al-Youm toured the Abbasseya Hospital, the oldest and largest hospital in Egypt, and talked with Ms. Hana, who was accompanying her daughter, to monitor the hospital's efforts in the face of the epidemic. We have penetrated Section II, where Mariam was isolated. The section was completely isolated. Its external doors were of glass and its internal doors that separate the rooms were closed. The section is clean and quiet, but the nurses were not wearing masks, despite the serious hazard. The veiled Mariam was lying on a clean bed in the air-conditioned room no.7. On the other bed was her mother, who was waiting for her sister to come and take them to Kafr Shebin in Shebin Al-Qanatir, where they were originally headed when they came to Cairo. On the dawn of Monday, we talked with Hana, Mariam's mother, who refused that we talk with her daughter or take pictures of her. We have abided to her orders. The mother was still worried even though the reports said she did not carry the virus. On our way out, we asked one of the hospital workers why she was not wearing a mask. "God protects me," she said.
