A general view of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas where a patient has been diagnosed with the Ebola virus on Sept. 30, 2014 in Dallas, Texas.
Photo credit: Mike Stone/Getty Images)
No orderly or common sense recommendations to contain this deadly contagious disease. The CDC, US government agency with over sight of such threats to public health blamed a "breach of protocol." So wait, the superior intellects hired by Obama and Holder (who recommend ignoring inconvenient laws), blames a "breach of protocol." Not a law but a recommendation to prevent the spread of this deadly contagious disease. If the CDC orders it, it will be obeyed? Huh? Do these geniuses in the government realize they are dealing with human beings? Are they conscious? Do they have any concept of reality beginning with their unreliable words? There are no protocols in place. They are ever changing according to these nurses at the very hospital where the Liberian man died. There are no safe protocols to contain waste from treatment and to dispose of it safely without infecting others. This is serious incompetence openly exhibited at the highest levels of the taxpayer funded government.
[From article]
A Liberian Ebola patient was left in an open area of a Dallas emergency room for hours, and nurses treating him worked without proper protective gear and faced constantly changing protocols, according to a statement released by the nation’s largest nurses’ union.
Among those nurses was Nina Pham, 26, who has been hospitalized since Friday after catching Ebola while caring for Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person diagnosed with the virus in the U.S. He died last week.
[. . .]
The CDC has said some breach of protocol probably sickened Pham, but National Nurses United contends the protocols were either non-existent or changed constantly after Duncan arrived in the emergency room by ambulance on Sept. 28.
[. . .]
The nurses allege that his lab samples were allowed to travel through the hospital’s pneumatic tubes, possibly risking contaminating of the specimen-delivery system. They also said that hazardous waste was allowed to pile up to the ceiling[. . .]
Wendell Watson, a Presbyterian spokesman, [said] “Patient and employee safety is our greatest priority, and we take compliance very seriously,” he said in a statement. He said the hospital would “review and respond to any concerns raised by our nurses and all employees.”
http://houston.cbslocal.com/2014/10/15/nurses-union-ebola-patient-left-in-open-area-of-er-for-hours/
Nurses’ Union: Ebola Patient Left In Open Area Of ER For Hours
CBS News Houston TX
October 15, 2014 10:45 AM
Among those nurses was Nina Pham, 26, who has been hospitalized since Friday after catching Ebola while caring for Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person diagnosed with the virus in the U.S. He died last week.
[. . .]
The CDC has said some breach of protocol probably sickened Pham, but National Nurses United contends the protocols were either non-existent or changed constantly after Duncan arrived in the emergency room by ambulance on Sept. 28.
[. . .]
The nurses allege that his lab samples were allowed to travel through the hospital’s pneumatic tubes, possibly risking contaminating of the specimen-delivery system. They also said that hazardous waste was allowed to pile up to the ceiling[. . .]
Wendell Watson, a Presbyterian spokesman, [said] “Patient and employee safety is our greatest priority, and we take compliance very seriously,” he said in a statement. He said the hospital would “review and respond to any concerns raised by our nurses and all employees.”
http://houston.cbslocal.com/2014/10/15/nurses-union-ebola-patient-left-in-open-area-of-er-for-hours/
Nurses’ Union: Ebola Patient Left In Open Area Of ER For Hours
CBS News Houston TX
October 15, 2014 10:45 AM
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