Nina Pham, Second health worker at Texas hospital tests +ve for Ebola
A Second health care worker at Texas hospital who cared for Thomas Eric Duncan tests positive for Ebola. Her name is Nina Pham a nurse at the healthcare facility
Nina Pham, Second nurse at Texas hospital who cared for Thomas Eric Duncan tests positive for Ebola.
The CDC (Center for Disease Control) admitted that they could have done a better job in the way they have handled Ebola cases in USA. They also admitted that the government has made mistakes in its effort to control the virus- mistakes that may have lead to a nurse getting sick. The CDC has promised to do better mostly through the use of response teams dispatched to any hospital within hours when cases of Ebola show up
Nina Pham contracted the virus from a patient who later died is in good condition. The government admitted that Nina Pham could never have gotten sick if the CDC had sent a rapid response team of infection control experts to Dallas as soon as Thomas Eric Duncan tested positive.
“I wish we had put together a team like this the day Eric Duncan was diagnosed. That might have prevented this infection.” Said Dr. Tom Frieden of CDC.
On her part, nurse Nina Pham said in a written statement that she is doing well and thanked everyone for their kind wishes and prayers. In the statement, she defended the Texas Health Presbyterian hospital Dallas saying she was blessed to be cared for by the best team of doctors and nurses in the world
Because Nina Pham was infected while wearing protective gear, the CDC has said that it will monitor 76 hospital staff in addition to another 48 already being monitored. Dr. Frieden said that CDC is “casting its net wide” to identify anyone who might have been exposed, including anyone who went in to the room and people who handled specimen of blood that were taken from Eric Duncan.
Nina Pham was certified to work as a critical care nurse less than two months before helping treat Duncan’s deadly Ebola
