By Jack Linshi
The nurse who was the first known person to contract Ebola on American soil will sue the hospital where she contracted the virus.
Nina Pham, 26, told the Dallas Morning News that the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas and its parent company, Texas Health Resources, failed to provide her and her colleagues adequate training and protection while she cared for Thomas Eric Duncan, who was the first patient diagnosed in the U.S. during the outbreak.
As a result, Pham said, she was made into “a symbol of corporate neglect—a casualty of a hospital system’s failure to prepare for a known and impending medical crisis.”
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