( CNN ) The first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United Kingdom is heading home . London 's Royal Free Hospital announced Saturday that `` Pauline Cafferkey has been discharged from the Royal Free following her recovery from Ebola . '' On December 29 , the 39-year-old Glasgow , Scotland , resident became the first person to be diagnosed with the virus on UK soil shortly after returning from Sierra Leone . Five days later , the Royal Free Hospital announced her condition had deteriorated to critical . That meant all the more reason to celebrate Saturday 's news . Prime Minister David Cameron was among those weighing in , tweeting , `` Great to hear Pauline Cafferkey has been discharged from hospital . Thank you to everyone @ RoyalFreeNHS for the world class care . '' Cafferkey contracted Ebola while working with Save the Children at an Ebola treatment center , according to Michael von Bertele , humanitarian director at that organization . British media outlets said Cafferkey is a public health nurse in Scotland 's South Lanarkshire area who was part of a 30-strong team of medical volunteers deployed to West Africa by the UK government last month in a joint endeavor with Save the Children . She traveled via Casablanca , Morocco , and London Heathrow Airport before arriving at Glasgow Airport on a British Airways flight late last year , the health agency NHS Scotland said . After feeling unwell , she sought medical attention and became the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola within the United Kingdom . She was reportedly transferred to London in a military aircraft fitted with an isolation pod and brought to the Royal Free Hospital . That facility has a high-level isolation unit , with access restricted to specially trained medical staff . A specially designed tent , with controlled ventilation , is set up over the patient 's bed . As she got treatment there , Save the Children said that it was `` doing everything possible '' to establish how Cafferkey contracted Ebola and had been conducting a review since she was confirmed as having the virus . CNN 's Susannah Cullinane and Max Foster contributed to this report .
London 's Royal Free Hospital tweets that it 's released Pauline Cafferkey . She was diagnosed with Ebola in late December , at one point was in critical condition . Comment: