Family of Ebola Victim’s blames both the hospital and the state

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Family and relatives of the first person to die of Ebola in the United States together with Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. has complained of the poor treatment that they received from the hospital where their relative was confined as well as with the Texas Officials.

According to them, their relative was cremated without them knowing and without their consent claiming that the victim was given substandard care just because he was African.

The nephew of the Ebola victim - Thomas Eric Duncan, Josephus Weeks said that his uncle was treated poorly and unfairly and claims that injustice was done to him.

Weeks together with Jackson and Duncan's mother, Nowai Gartay spoke to reporters and questioned why Duncan was not taken to Nebraska Medical Center where there were American Ebola Victims residing and that the Texas hospital did not inform them right away that Duncan was dead and lead them to believe that he was still alive.

Gartay said "I feel bad about my son. We call the hospital - they know that my son died, and they didn't tell me. They only told me, 'You can't talk to your son."

According to Jackson, the Ebola victims that were taken to an Ebola facility came back with fast treatment and their lives are back to normal. Adding "that did not happen with Eric Duncan. and the critical hours, critical days, were missed."

According to Boston.com, "on Friday, Weeks released Duncan's medical records to The Associated Press. Those documents raised new questions about why the hospital that treated him had sent him home after his first visit to its emergency room on Sept. 25. The medical records showed that during that first visit, his temperature had peaked at 103 degrees and he had reported severe pain, rating it an eight on a scale of 1 to 10."

Dr. Amesh A. Adalja, an infectious-diseases specialist and emergency-medicine expert at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center who reviewed some of Duncan's medical records at the request of The AP, said Duncan had not had a fever when he first arrived at the emergency room, but that he had complained of abdominal pain and a headache. About 3 1/2 hours into his stay, his temperature reached 103 degrees, the highest reading during his four-hour visit.

She said "you have a person who arrived from Liberia in the last 21 days, who has abdominal pain and a headache and eventually exhibits a fever in the emergency department. That's clearly a constellation of findings that meets the criteria for Ebola. From the very start, Ebola should have been in the minds of all the health care providers."

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