US health officials desperately trying to get 20 hospitals ready to safely treat Ebola
by: Ethan A. Huff
NaturalNews.com
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Hospitals all across the country are scrambling to equip themselves for a potential Ebola outbreak after major protocol failures at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas left at least two health workers infected with the illness and one patient dead.
The goal is to get at least 20 hospitals fully prepared to handle Ebola patients, according to Reuters, as well as figure out how to best treat patients without jeopardizing the safety of medical workers. This may require that certain patients not receive medical care under the new paradigm, as treating them could put some doctors and nurses at risk.
The current standard for medical care in the U.S. has long been to do everything possible to keep a patient alive, even if means putting quality of life on the back burner. But because of the escalating risks involved, medical personnel could have to forego treating a patient if it is perceived that doing so could put their own lives at risk.
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