Family of Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey says she was 'let down'

Family of Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey says she was 'let down', The ancestors of assistant Pauline Cafferkey says doctors "missed a big opportunity" to atom she had collapsed ill again.

Ms Cafferkey is in an abreast assemblage in London afterwards tests adumbrated the Ebola virus is still present in her body.

The bloom lath accepted she was beatific home by an out-of-hours doctor in Glasgow beforehand this week.

In an account with the Sunday Mail newspaper, her sister Toni Cafferkey said it was "absolutely diabolical" the way the assistant had been treated.

Ms Cafferkey, from Cambuslang in South Lanarkshire, spent about a ages in abreast at the alpha of the year afterwards application the virus in December 2014.

Bodily tissues can harbour the Ebola infection months afterwards the getting appears to accept actually recovered.On Tuesday, the 39-year-old was accepted to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow afterwards activity unwell.

She was after aureate to the Royal Free Hospital in London area she charcoal in a austere action in an abreast unit. She is not anticipation to be contagious.

Toni Cafferkey told the Sunday Mail that her sister had gone to a GP out-of-hours dispensary at the Victoria Hospital in Glasgow on Monday night but the doctor who adjourned her diagnosed a virus and beatific her home.

She said: "At that point me and my ancestors accept they absent a big befalling to accord the adapted analysis and we feel she was let down. Instead of getting taken into hospital, she spent the accomplished of Tuesday actual ill.

"I anticipate it is actually awful the way she has been treated... We don't apperceive if the delays diagnosing Pauline accept had an adverse aftereffect on her health, but we intend to acquisition out.

"It has not been acceptable enough. We anticipate there accept been above failings and we just wish her to cull through. This affectionate of ceremony seems to be attenuate but we don't yet apperceive abundant about it."

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde accepted that Ms Cafferkey did appear the New Victoria Hospital GP out-of-hours account on Monday.

A agent said: "Her administration and the analytic decisions taken based on the affection she was announcement at the time were absolutely appropriate.

"All adapted infection ascendancy procedures were agitated out as allotment of this adventure of care."
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