Nurse At Ebola Hospital: ‘I Can No Longer Defend My Hospital At All’
Pamela Engel
BusinessInsider.com
Oct. 16, 2014
A nurse who works at the Dallas hospital that has seen two Ebola cases went on the “Today” show Thursday morning to publicly decry her hospital’s response to the crisis.
Briana Aguirre has been a nurse for seven years and has worked at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas for three.
She says the hospital botched its response to Dallas’ Ebola cases and that hospital staff members were completely unprepared to handle Ebola.
“I can no longer defend my hospital at all,” Aguirre said. “I watched them violate basic principles of nursing care, of medical care.”
The first person found to have Ebola in the US was Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian man who went to the emergency room at Texas Health Presbyterian once he started showing some flu-like symptoms. He reportedly told staff that he had recently traveled from West Africa, which is in the midst of a massive Ebola outbreak, but he was reportedly told he had a minor infection and sent home.
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