London - hospital visit

Woke up early to get my brother to the hospital. He had fevers and chills the whole night and was feeling rather unwell with headache, and was slightly short of breath. The worrying thing was that he was in a malarial area with high drug resistance and probabaly did not take the right prophylaxis.

Went to the Royal London Hospital Emergency Department which wasn't too busy at that hour. was seen promptly and had a few tests done. He also was given some intravenous antibiotics 'just in case' and iv fluids too. The malarial blood tests took a very long time to come back as they did 3 spaced out ones. Thankfully, as the day wore on he actually felt better.

We ended up staying almost 13 boring hours in the Hospital. But he was discharged and is now improving. Doctor said was probably a non-specific viral infection. Much better than malaria or dengue or scrub typhus or any of the other nasty tropical infections.