Scots Ebola Nurse, Pauline Cafferkey Charged Over Concealing Temperature

[Steve.r]

As I said, like a drunken driver knowing they are drunk but taking a chance. That the driver is a great guy doing all sorts of voluntary works, donating blood, a kidney etc, would not excuse him.

Jimmy Savile did a lot of good , and raised thousands for charity, had he not died he would rightly be in prison.

Poor lady, trying to help others and then getting bad press when every single one of the journalists would have done the same.

Even if they would, and I doubt it, they are not responsible medically trained people as are nurses, doctors etc.

I am sure no doctor would have done as she appears to have done. (I say, appears, but if there was no evidence of wrong doing she would not have appeared before the committee)

As a nurse, who worked with Ebola, and knew first hand better than anyone the real risks of infecting others, and the high chance that they might then die, taking any risk was almost unbelievable and is indefensible.

I am sorry but I cannot excuse her behaviour.

You have no real right to challenge the outcome of the trial. She has been acquitted. Why do you feel the need to carry on the witch hunt against her? I just don't understand some peoples mentality sometimes.

[johncar54]

You have no real right to challenge the outcome of the trial. She has been acquitted. Why do you feel the need to carry on the witch hunt against her? I just don't understand some peoples mentality sometimes.

Doc Alan quote:
When this nurse returned from Sierra Leone in December 2014, with many other NHS volunteers, there was a screening procedure at Heathrow whereby Public Health England ( PHE ) had nurses to take the temperatures of the travellers. It appears that there weren’t sufficient screening staff, so PHE encouraged volunteers to take their own temperatures. This nurse’s temperature was high, and was taken several more times, but she is alleged to have taken paracetamol ( which would lower her temperature ) and was eventually told she could board her flight to Glasgow. The allegations of concealing high temperature may be false - but, even if true, this could be misjudgement made under stress.


The nurse had Ebola of that there is no doubt. As a nurse she would have known she had a temperature. She must have known she might be infected. She took medication to lower it to get around the regulations so she would be allowed to fly. As Doc Alan said, ".... this could be misjudgement made under stress."

Had she infected thousands or people or even one person, I do not think anyone would be jumping to her defence.

She did wrong but was lucky (twice) and so were the public.

Because people did not believe the findings when the police investigated themselves was why we now righty have an the Independent Police Complaints Commission. In-house committees are notorious for protecting their own.