At 44, Teresa Romero has come a long way. This Spanish nurse managed to overcome Ebola virus, contracted after treating two priests repatriated from Sierra Leone in Madrid hospital. In West Africa, hemorrhagic fever has already claimed more than 5,000 lives.
The Spaniard showed the first symptoms on September 29. Placed in isolation and in care, she was released from the Carlos III hospital in Madrid on Wednesday. Its contamination had created a wind of controversy in Spain against the Madrid government, accused of not having put in place adequate training plans for nursing staff or provided specific equipment to take care of Ebola patients on Iberian soil. .
Fair play, the nurse did not wish to fuel the debate. “I don’t know what went wrong, and maybe nothing went wrong,” she said at a press conference. After thanking the doctors who treated her, she expressed the wish that her blood carrying antibodies could be used to treat other Ebola patients.
Spain is not the only country where the question of the management of Ebola patients and the preparation of medical personnel has been debated. In the USA, nurses call for striketo protest against these shortcomings on November 11 and 12.
