A Miami Beach doctor who treated Ebola patients in west Africa remains under quarantine.
Dr. Michael Drusano volunteered to treat up to 30 Ebola patients a day in Sierra Leone.
"The days were long and physically demanding," he told NBC 6.
Drusano lives behind the door of his Miami Beach condo and was interviewed by Skype. He's still in the middle of his 21-day home quarantine.
"I can have visitors but they have to stay about four feet away from me at all times, no contact whatsoever has been allowed so that has also been somewhat difficult," Drusano said.
What was even more difficult, Drusano said, was treating the patients, especially the young children.
"They were proven to have Ebola in their blood tests but you took one look at them and you wouldn't guess in a million years that they had Ebola," he said.
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Drusano volunteered through a group called Partners in Health. He left his job and friends behind to help an area in need of physicians and volunteered to help prevent the virus from spreading.
"There were a lot of patients that got care that otherwise wouldn't have care if I hadn't gone," he said.
Now, Drusano patiently waits to return to his day-to-day routine of educating and treating patients in South Florida.
"I'm perfectly healthy, the Health Department has been coming by twice a day to take my temperature. they've been very gracious and helpful," he said. "There's nothing we would do to endanger people back home."
Drusano is allowed to leave his apartment to do things alone but he has been asked to stay three feet away from people for the next few days.
