rights lawyer to sue after she was forced into quarantine on returning
to the US from caring for Ebola victims in Sierra Leone. The US Govt
recently started a mandatory 21-day quarantine order for all health
workers who arrived back in the US via airports in New York, New
Jersey and Chicago, to help stop the spread of Ebola.
Kaci Hickox, (pictured above) who was the first person to be placed
into the 21 day period of isolation, said she was treated like a
'criminal' after risking her life to volunteer in an Ebola-stricken
country. Her lawyer said Kaci's human rights were abused when she was
sent to hospital in a protective suit after arriving at New Jersey's
Newark Airport.
The mandatory quarantine began after a doctor, Craig Spencer who had
returned from treating Ebola patients in Guinea tested positive for
the virus after spending five days mixing with the public without
realizing he had the disease.
No comments:
Post a Comment