Ebola Hospital Call In Sick - Bellevue Hospital Center in New York reportedly experienced "staff shortage" after staffers called in sick Friday. The hospital staff decided not to treat the city's first Ebola patient for feat of getting Ebola themselves, and those who were there had been frightened from entering his room, The New York Post reported Saturday.
The New York medical facility where the Ebola hospital call in sick incident happened is where the city's first Ebola patient - a doctor who just came home from West Africa - is under isolation.
The staffers reportedly said they're afraid of becoming infected like two Dallas nurses that treated Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian national who was the first Ebola patient to die on U.S. soil Oct. 8.
On Thursday, 33-year-old Dr. Craig Spencer got admitted to the facility where the Ebola hospital call in sick incident occurred. He tested positive for Ebola after volunteering for "Doctors Without Borders," a group continuously aiding Ebola-plagued countries like Guinea, in West Africa, Ground Zero for Ebola. He later tested positive for Ebola.
Treatment still pushed through after the Ebola hospital call in sick incident and Spencer is being provided treatment. He is reportedly in a fair condition.
Spencer's fiancee and two friends who experienced close contact with him days before his diagnosis have also been quarantined as precaution.
"The nurses on the floor are miserable with a ''why me?'' attitude, scared to death and overworked because all their co-workers called out sick," according to a hospital source.
"One nurse even went as far as to pretend she was having a stroke to get out of working there, but once they cleared her in the ER they sent her back up," the source said of the Ebola hospital call in sick incident.
Nurses cared for Spencer in teams of two, "with one serving as a buddy watching the other," said Ana Marengo, a spokesperson for Health and Hospitals Corporation. She also denied any Ebola hospital call in sick incident.
Meanwhile, since Spencer knew Ebola being an expert, he is reported even educating the staff how to handle him the best way possible.
"As a doctor, he knows a lot about medicine, so he would call the nurses station all day and going back and forth with doctors on what to do," added the source of the newspaper.
Since the Ebola hospital call in sick incident, which didn't affect the care given to the sick doctor, has left Spencer passing time confined to a special, pressurized room watching TV and eating food from the hospital.
While visitors are not allowed to see the quarantined patient now, Spencer will reportedly be available for Skype with friends and pals after his room is outfitted with a video camera, according to sources.
While officials would not divulge his exact treatment, doctors are working to keep him hydrated and comfortable even after reports of the Ebola hospital call in sick incident.
"He will be a candidate for any experimental treatments that might be available," said adviser to the mayor Dr. Irwin Redlener.
On Oct. 17, Spencer arrived in New York, which is six days before he was admitted to the hospital, reports the Daily Mail.
The doctor even went bowling in Brooklyn, rode the subway and took a taxi, walked Manhattan's High Line and went to restaurants after the mews.
On Tuesday, Spencer started feeling ill on Tuesday. However, the fever died down, but apparently developed until Thursday morning.
He called Doctors Without Borders officials, who called New York's health department.
Emergency health workers rushed to Spencer's apartment on West 147th Street, Manhattan's Harlem neighborhood, wearing full protective gear. He was still shaken by the incident. At 1 p.m. Monday, the apartment got was sealed off.
Meanwhile, Bellevue Hospital Center denied they had "staff shortage."
The report of the hospital call in sick came as both New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Friday they are ordering a mandatory, 21-day quarantine for all hospital have had Ebola.
The Ebola hospital call in sick incident occurred a day after Spencer was diagnosed with the disease, reports Fox News.
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