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October 17, 2014

Head of Dallas Hospital Apologizes for Duncan Treatment, Nurse's Ebola Infections 
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Concern around Ebola has grown nationwide following the infections of
two Dallas nurses who treated Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian national
who died last week. On Thursday, the chief clinician at the nurses'
hospital, Dr. Daniel Varga of Texas Health Presbyterian, apologized to
Congress for the mishandling of Duncan's care.

Dr. Daniel Varga: "Unfortunately, in our initial treatment of Mr.
Duncan, despite our best intentions and a highly skilled medical team,
we made mistakes. We did not correctly diagnose his symptoms as those of
Ebola, and we are deeply sorry."

On Thursday, the first nurse to be infected at Texas Health
Presbyterian, Nina Pham, was flown to Maryland for treatment at a
National Institutes for Health facility. The second nurse, Amber Vinson,
was transferred on Wednesday to Emory University in Atlanta, leaving no
more Ebola patients in Dallas.

 

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