Texas Hospital Director ‘Deeply Sorry’ for ‘Mistakes’
official at the Dallas hospital where two nurses contracted Ebola told Congress on Thursday that emergency staff were not trained this summer on how to handle the virus, despite warnings from health officials about the outbreak in West Africa.
The official, Dr. Daniel Varga, apologized to a House committee and said that authorities were still trying to determine exactly how the nurses were infected.
Both of them treated Thomas Eric Duncan, who was infected in Liberia, traveled to Dallas and showed up at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in late September. He was admitted only after the second visit and later died.
“It’s hard for me to put into words how we felt when our patient Thomas Eric Duncan lost his struggle with Ebola on Oct. 8,” Varga said.
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