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Written By: Editorial Team | Published : October 25, 2014 10:22 AM IST
Nina Pham, the nurse who was infected with Ebola while looking after a Liberian man suffering from the same in Dallas, received a big hug from US President Barack Obama. She was invited to the Oval Office to celebrate her recovery from the Ebola virus.
Obama met with Pham, 26, in the White House, where photographers immortalised an embrace that reflected the president's wish to calm American citizens following the arrival of Ebola in the country.
The nurse was released Friday morning from the medical centre of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, where she was treated. NIH authorities said in a communique that Pham was free of the virus, and soon afterwards the nurse left the medical centre.
Before her meeting with Obama, she did not have to pass through any checkpoint or additional control, since she had submitted to five different tests to confirm that she no longer had the virus, White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters.
Upon leaving the medical centre, Pham told reporters that she felt 'fortunate and blessed to be standing here today', adding that she believed 'in the power of prayer', after thanking all the people who had prayed for her cure.
Nina was earlier teary-eyed when she learnt she had to be shifted to Maryland. n a video taken by the staff, Nina is seen crying as she says goodbye and says, 'I love you guys' to the two doctors caring for her. Here's the video.
With inputs from IANS
Video source: You Tube
Image source: Getty Images
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