51.   Irma Lubbinge, an information officer for the International Federation of the Red Cross, said the first patients will be admitted Thursday.

52.   Most of the deaths came about two days after the patient was admitted to a hospital, despite treatment with antibiotics and other measures.

53.   No new patients have been admitted to the ward, she said.

54.   State and private radio stations broadcast government appeals to hospitals run by missionaries and others to admit patients who left public hospitals and submit the bills to authorities.

55.   The center, which had been closed at the time of the trip, has since reopened and has started to admit patients again.

56.   The intensive care unit was closed , and only the most critically injured patients were being admitted.

57.   The patient was admitted after he developed symptoms typical of Congo fever, including high temperature, muscular aches and internal hemorrhaging, hospital staff said.

58.   The other four government hospitals in Blantyre are small and do not admit patients.

59.   The patients were admitted for observation because of the delay in symptoms.

60.   Yet the city council ruled that no Muslim or Croat patients will be admitted to the hospital without official permission.