No, I have’nt communicated to him. Someone that well known is not likely to respond to me, just a nosy blogger on the net. If I had a brother or cousin thinking about offering their skills to Samaritan’s Purse, or a similar organization, I would want to know what they are doing to educate their workers about this disease. The basic Universal Precautions of wearing gloves and washing hands will not be enough in some cases, due to the ease this virus can be spread. If/when more of his workers contracts the virus, what will the policy of evacuation be? Will they all be returning to the U.S.? Will they be quarantined alone or bundled with other Ebola patients the way early AIDs sufferers were jammed into wards in the first part of the epidemic?
Are these people presumed to be self insured, or does Samaritan’s Purse accept the expense and if so for how long? There will probably be a cap to expenses covered. Even a charity has to establish some limits to it’s benelovance.
Would a recovered Ebola volunteer ever be permitted to return and under what conditions? Many of my questions would not be discussed on the news anyway. Corporate policy statements as these would come from Human Resources I would imagine.
Samaritan’s Purse
P.O. Box 3000
Boone, NC 28607
Phone (828) 262-1980
Fax (828) 266-1056
Write to or phone and ask for Franklin Graham.
For pete’s sake; he’s just one of Billy’s sons. What’s the big deal with contacting him? And why does he have to respond to get your message? Tell him what you think he should do.
Go away. The bridge you live under is calling your name.
The medical precautions are the same as for hepatitis, cholera or hiv...gloves and if they are coughing up blood, a facemask. Basic stuff you learn in medical or nursing school.
luckily, unless they cough right into your face, it is not spread by air, like pneumonic plague or tb or bird flu.
I suspect a lot of medical deaths are from gloves that break or no masks, and maybe because there simply is not enough protective gear available. Our mission hospital of 200 patients got 6 pairs of gloves a month, and we reused them, and even reused bandages that were clean ie upperlayer on a wound. True, that was 1980, but these areas are still poor.
>> I would want to know what they are doing to educate their workers about this disease. bla bla bla &etc &etc
My strong belief is that the MEDICAL DOCTOR who, at great risk to himself, travelled to Africa to aid victims of the disease — as well as the organization that REGULARLY, as their MISSION, furnishes the logistics to enable this kind of Christian aid — know ONE WHOLE CRAPLOAD MORE ABOUT EBOLA than you EVER will.