[kaila]

I think the problem is with removing the protective gear. We are taught how to remove our isolation gowns, but we have never seen anything like Ebola. In Africa, the health care workers are sprayed down with a disinfectant ( I think it is a bleach solution) before they remove their gear.They are not doing this here, as far as I can tell.
Hospitals do not have a place where the health care workers can get sprayed down. Most hospital rooms don't even have an anteroom.
In order to properly protect health care workers and others, there needs to be a different system setup. Erect tents at the front of the hospital .If you are displaying Ebola symptoms, you go to the tent, not to the ER.. All health care personnel wear protective gear in those designated tent areas.Fast track the testing so that the results are back in less than 4 hours. If testing shows to be positive, you are escorted to the Ebola ward , which could be in an outside tent. The staff can much more easily decontaminate outside than inside. Then, the rest of the hospital functions do not get affected.

[Abigail Adams]

Excellent suggestions. May the Lord have mercy on us!

[Jim Noble]

In order to properly protect health care workers and others, there needs to be a different system setup

100% correct. Don't hold your breath.

[spokeshave]

Hospitals do not have a place where the health care workers can get sprayed down. Most hospital rooms don't even have an anteroom

I have worked security in hospitals.

They have full body overhead high volume sprays in morgues, pathology, surgical, biopsy labs, and adjacent to outside disposal containers....

Not to difficult to close them off and have additional chlorine based sprays.

[driftdiver]

I don’t think the test can be done in 4 hours. There are also a lot 90 false negatives.

[tomkat]

Tho the frontline may eventually be everywhere, a most sincere Godspeed about now to all our healthcare FReepers !     d:^[

[Ready4Freddy]

Thanks you, kaila!

[sagar]

“you are escorted to the Ebola ward , which could be in an outside tent.”

Segregation is not the answer. We must understand the disease and be compassionate. Help the victim and not take rash and racist judgment.

[444Flyer]

BTTT