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Originally Posted by Yorkiemom1  But the doctor and other health care worker were covered completely, additionally getting sprayed off head to foot with a chlorine solution....and yet, they got it. My concern and question remains about the conditions the family that was in extensive contact with the patient when he was clearly critically ill and had a huge virus load going on, and staff that was NOT in such unprotected direct contact and yet they got it..... I am now involved with a couple of nursing advocacy groups that are doing various activities to proove that it was the hospital that was grossly negligent and did not provide the correct isolation equipment for the staff....they started out with nothing but standard isolation gowns and masks and shoe covers....not to mention they and many, many other hospital staff were all around that patient as he remained in an open ER room, then moved into an "isolation room" in the ER.....which is nothing more than a cubicle with a sliding glass door, as opposed to just a curtain that is drawn around the patient. All the lies that have been told about being prepared and nurses having been trained to work with ebola patients specifically, are of course, all lies. The staff from all over the hospital, from lab, to xray, to housekeeping, to ER nurses and doctors....and oh yes, other patients, is absolutely unforgivable and unacceptable. I think it was even you that reminded me that you suppossed that patient had exposed other patients while in the ER....and, OMG, after talking with some of the people I have been talking with, it was soooooooo much worse than just that....I just can not believe how ridiculous and totally unprepared all this was ...not only on the first arrival at the hospital, but when he was brought in the second time, clearly in the throes of a hemmorhagic disease....and they blame the nurses for "a break in protocol"....protocol that in reality did not even exist! You are correct....nurses were sent into a lions den, with nothing but paper gowns and a partial face mask and gloves (gloves that may not even be impermeable to ebola virus)....This whole process, if not such a tragic event, would be like a comedy of errors......except people die when hospitals and government health care entities lie about measures they allegedly have in place "to protect us".....NO ONE was protected. |
Are you talking about the doctors and such in West Africa? From my understand this did not happen in the hospital in TX. As of right now who knows for sure what went on in the hospital in the very beginning. But I have a strong feeling that in the end what is going to come out is they didn't want the CDC (government) telling them what to do in
THEIR hospital so they implemented a fly by the seat of their pants plan while reporting all was well......until (my guess) a nurse stepped up to stop the madness. By then it was too late and the first 2 nurses were exposed.
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