US nurse quarantined over Ebola says she was treated ‘like a criminal’
Kaci Hickox – nurse who returned to New Jersey from treating patients in Sierra Leone – has criticised her treatment under a mandatory 21-day quarantine policy
TelegraphUK
26 Oct 2014
Illinois joined New York and New Jersey in imposing mandatory quarantines for people arriving with a risk of having contracted Ebola in West Africa, but the first person isolated under the new rules, a nurse returning from Sierra Leone, called her treatment a “frenzy of disorganisation”.
Kaci Hickox, who arrived at Newark airport in New Jersey on Friday, described hours of questioning by officials in protective gear and what she said was a mis-diagnosis of fever, followed by a transfer to a hospital isolation tent.
Not long after Miss Hickox’s criticisms were made public, it was announced that the US Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, is traveling to Guinea on Sunday. She will also visit Liberia and Sierra Leone, making the trip despite calls by some US lawmakers for a travel ban on the three West African countries worst-affected by Ebola.
Ms Power, a member of President Barack Obama’s cabinet, left Washington on Saturday.
Mr Obama has resisted Republican calls for a travel ban on advice from health officials who say such a measure would be counter-productive, in part because it would impede people going to help fight the epidemic. Concern over Ebola has become a political issue ahead of Nov. 4 congressional elections.
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