AN EBOLA SCARE FORCES AN ARKANSAS HOSPITAL TO STEP UP ITS EFFORTS TO PREPARE FOR AN EMERGENCY. A WOMAN CALLED CHICOT MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER TOLD THEM HER HUSBAND WAS DRIVING HIMSELF TO THE E-R WITH FLU-LIKE SYMPTOMS AND THAT HE HAD RECENTLY TRAVELED IN AFRICA. HOSPITAL WORKERS QUICKLY SPRANG INTO ACTION NOTIFYING THE U-S CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION AND THE ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH OF THE SITUATION AND BEGAN PREPARING FOR THE PATIENTS ARRIVAL. THEY CREATED PROTECTIVE CLOTHING FOR E-R WORKERS SECURED AN ROOM TO EXAMINE THE PATIENT AND ARRANGED FOR HIM TO ENTER THROUGH A DOOR WHERE HE WOULD HAVE NO CONTACT WITH OTHER PATIENTS. HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATORS SAY DOCTORS WERE ON THE PHONE WITH THE C-D-C AND ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH THROUGHOUT THE EXAMINATION AND WHILE IT WAS A TENSE SITUATION FOR HOSPITAL WORKERS and THE PATIENT, THEY SAY HE ULTIMATELY DID NOT HAVE EBOLA.
Posted on: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 03:30:25 +0000
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