Posted on 08/10/2014 12:46:23 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe
I have spent a little time compiling links to threads about the Ebola outbreak in the interest of having all the links in one thread for future reference.
Please add links to new threads and articles of interest as the situation develops.
Thank You all for you participation.
A purported Spanish medical whistle blower sent the following to Zero Hedge.
I am a nurse in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Hospital La Paz. The reason for addressing you.’s To inform the public the facts that have happened recently regarding the “Crisis of the Ebola virus” opinion. Do not want to create social alarm, but tell what is still a reality in everyday for a few months of nursing staff the ICU among which I include ago.
Since the hospital was named La Paz as a reference center for the diagnosis and treatment of HIV infection in April 2014, the staff has been showing its disconfor to that measure and irregularities have been committing the direction of nursing the hospital as a whole. (See attachment Notification Judge).
These irregularities summarize, focus on that:
• The hospital does not have adequate infrastructure to enter patients affected with this type of disease (the famous isolation rooms with negative pressure).
• The original protocols of the Ministry of Health were modified to fit like the gaps that had the hospital: If you do not have “negative pressure” we say “as far as is demonstrated airborne transmission is not necessary.”
• General (modified or not) protocols are not handed to staff for knowledge, nor were exposed at various meetings with management nursing.
• As ICU care were demanding the implementation of specific protocols UCI (Today still not exist or at least personnel have not arrived)
• Staff training requires the completion of courses and training to work in situations like this.
• The Department of Preventive Medicine Hospital offers two informative talks (45 minutes) of such as personal protective equipment required. In those talks and the inexperience of the same staff that taught, costumes torn apart, replaced the shims for plastic bags, there were no complete SCUBA and coming to say more or less I had to do a hack to cover his face with masking tape.
Without being solved any of these issues by the Department of the hospital, you will hanging out and communicating to staff that will be the Hospital of the defense “Gómez Ulla” who takes these emergencies but as it is in the process of reform to create appropriate facilities, until the month of October will remain referral hospital.
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Finally only remains to emphasize that in all this there is a lot of improvisation and a lot of reckless attitude of those who truly, really ... NOT going to be ahead of the virus at him in the face. Listen to those who are on the front line have something to say
http://www.elmundo.es/madrid/2014/10/08/54346601e2704e35598b4571.html
Includes a telephone interview with the nurse herself.
Same blinders, different group...
Still too little....
Well, she “asked to be sent there,” which opens the door, however slightly, to the “martyr complex” theory, which had already occurred to me. Certainly we have begun to see, and may expect more of every kind of weirdness in this matter.
I agree. The disease is not following the patterns of transmission generally accepted, or the biosafety protocols should be working whether the conditions are relatively primitive or not.
It isn't as if the personnel don't know the likely outcome for failure to observe them, yet they are still becoming infected at an alarming rate.
That would tend to indicate the assumptions about the transmission of the disease are insufficient to account for all possible vectors, and/or that the biosafety protocols need to be revamped.
The account posted by in a link Black Agnes of staff asserting they were ready to deal with the disease here is nothing sort of a horrorshow parody of how this pathogen should not be handled.
Someone needs to dust off their stuff on Level 4 pathogens and the sort of biosafety measures needed, not to mention biohazard disposal.
If America's hospitals think they are ready for this with that sort of preparation, the Medical Profession will be more dangerous than commercial fishing in the event of an outbreak here.
This Paul Bedard report is via the PANDEMIC FLU INFORMATION FORUM.
Short form — Liberia has poor Ebola data because it’s healthcare system is collapsing as soon as Ebola shows up in uninfected areas.
The few doctors and nurses in the areas infected in August are either dead or fled.
CDC: Doctors, nurses fleeing Ebola hospitals, virus not contained
BY PAUL BEDARD | OCTOBER 7, 2014 | 12:42 PM
A new and remarkably candid on-the-ground audit from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the Ebola crisis in Liberia said that doctors and nurses have fled hospitals in the infection zone and that obstacles to killing the virus remain.
The analysis of four remote Liberian counties conducted by local and CDC officials that were Ebola-free in August revealed that massive amounts of aid are still needed in the areas to fight the virus, which can be spread as simply as by burying a dead victim.
While the CDC said locals are getting a handle on the crisis, it warned, “obstacles to preventing spread of Ebola remain, and personal protective equipment, sufficient personnel for effective contact tracing and case management, efficient patient transport and regional diagnostic laboratory capabilities are urgently needed.” {in other words, they’ve got pretty much nothing}
The review of the southeastern Liberian counties in August found utter chaos and a full breakdown in the medical system, which has contributed to the spread of Ebola. It also found that locals didn’t know how to identify Ebola, even though the virus was dominating other areas of the country.“No Ebola surveillance systems were in place,” the doctors found in the report issued Tuesday.
And the lack of medical staff seemed to surprise the report authors. Rolling Eyes {what has Joanne Liu been screaming for for months and months??} “Before the epidemic, six physicians served all four counties. At the time of the evaluation, only three physicians remained; the others had left Liberia because of the epidemic. In two of four hospitals assessed, nursing staff members were not coming to work or had abandoned facilities; in another hospital, health care providers had not been paid for three months but were still providing basic care,” said the analysis.
Once locals were explained about the symptoms of Ebola, they realized that the virus had already hit.
“After basic training on case definitions and surveillance was provided to local officials, River Gee County health officials reviewed recent deaths and identified a patient with suspected Ebola. On Aug. 3, a pregnant woman (patient 1) died during a spontaneous abortion after leaving Monrovia where she had contact with an infected person at a funeral; she was buried by the community in the week after her death.
“On Aug. 24, 2014, Maryland County authorities identified a man hiding in a rice truck who had signs and symptoms of Ebola (patient 2). The truck had departed from Fish Town, River Gee County, and was destined for Pleebo, Maryland County. The man, who was reported to have participated in the burial of patient 1, was sent back to Fish Town, where he later was reported to have died of laboratory-confirmed Ebola. This was the first evidence of secondary transmission of Ebola in southeast Liberia.”
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at pbedard@washingtonexaminer.com.
To top it off, US healthcare workers are demoralized by Obama-care. He broke it, he OWNS it. And WE have an ugly job, don’t we? Trying to figure out the truth from a viper’s nest of lies.
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