Ebola update: Madrid regional health boss slammed for 'inappropriate' remarks - “If I have to resign, I will. I don't need this job”
Friday, October 10, 2014 @ 8:08 PM
MEMBERS of several political parties have called for the regional health minister of Madrid to be struck off based upon a series of 'inappropriate comments' in light of the Ebola contagion in Spain.
Critics include the PP, the party currently in power in the Greater Madrid region.
Javier Rodríguez's department was responsible for ordering Excalibur, the dog owned by nurse Teresa Romero and Javier Limón, to be put to sleep even though he showed no signs of having been affected by the virus and there is as yet no evidence to show that domestic pets can catch Ebola from or pass it onto humans.
Rodríguez firstly accused Teresa Romero of 'lying' to her doctor, although when ordered to rectify, said she 'probably withheld information' by not telling him on the first of three visits that she had been part of the team treating missionary doctor Manuel García Viejo, 69, who died three weeks ago after being repatriated from Sierra Leone.
“I said she could have lied, because she concealed information and took several days to admit she had made a mistake,” the minister stated.
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