Spanish Ebola case: ‘I am due to treat the patient. But I have no idea what to do’…”I am not ready, I am not trained. And it’s the same with my colleagues.”(OMG…)
A doctor who will treat Maria Teresa Romero Ramos, the Spanish nurse who has contracted Ebola, has launched a scathing attack on his country’s training procedures
By Fiona Govan
TelegraphUK
08 Oct 2014
A senior doctor at the Madrid hospital where the Spanish nurse infected with Ebola is being treated has warned that staff are not sufficiently trained to deal with the virus.
His warning comes as the sixth person in Spain was put into quarantine on Wednesday morning.
Dr Santiago Yus, a specialist in intensive care with more than 30 years experience at the hospital where the six isolated patients are being treated, claimed medics have received only minimal training.
“Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow I will be expected to treat the Ebola patient and nobody has even taught me to put on the protective suit,” he said in an interview with Spain’s daily El Mundo newspaper.
“I am not ready, I am not trained. And it’s the same with my colleagues.”
He said that he and other doctors had been given a ten-minute briefing on management of Ebola patients and shown some photographs on a wall. Two months ago they were given a demonstration on how to put on the protective suit.
“A doctor and a nurse put the suit on and took it off. The training was and is absolutely insufficient,” he said.
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