Bellevue hospital denies nurses were calling off
The New York hospital where the city's first Ebola patient is being treated has denied claims that hoards of health workers have called in sick out of fear of contracting the deadly virus.
Bellevue Hospital Center, to which Dr Craig Spencer was admitted on Thursday, was said to have suffered a staff shortage on Friday after a high number of medics failed to turn up for work.
According to The New York Post, the employees feared they might become infected with Ebola like the two Dallas nurses who treated victim Thomas Eric Duncan, who died on October 8.
However, hospital spokesman Ana Marengo has now denied there was any sickout, saying that nurses are willing treating Dr Spencer in pairs, 'with one serving as a buddy watching the other'.
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'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,' said the 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.'
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