Geneva, November 24 (RHC) -– A Cuban doctor who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone is currently in stable condition after undergoing two days of treatment at a Swiss hospital. Dr. Felix Baez Sarria, is a member of a 165-person medical team from Cuba deployed to fight Ebola in West Africa.

In a brief telephone interview from Geneva on Sunday, Dr. Jorge Perez, director of Havana's Pedro Kouri Institute of Tropical Medicine, said that the Cuban physician "is being very well taken care of." He added that the University Hospital is responsible for divulgating information on his health status and a new report is expected on Tuesday.

Baez was sent to the Swiss facility at the proposal of the World Health Organization. On Saturday, the Geneva University Hospital announced: "Today his health status is stable, although he remains in a serious medical condition. He has been placed in a special room that is isolated from the rest of the hospital.”

Cuba has sent some 265 medical workers to West Africa to combat the Ebola outbreak, which has killed more than 5,000 people in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.