Fort Kent, Maine – The officials of Maine and Nurse Kaci Hickox have reached a settlement deal last Monday concerning her quarantine suit and now she’s permitted to freely travel in public.
Hickox was the nurse who assisted in treating the Ebola victims in one of the urgent care clinics in West Africa. The settlement on the quarantine suit led to the agreement that Hickox would be allowed to travel in public with the condition that she would carefully monitor her health and let the state officials know if she notices symptoms of the fatal disease.
The settlement was filed in Fort Kent in northern Maine which is the Kaci Hickox’s hometown. This is the same place where she returned from her brief quarantine in New Jersey.
Hickox returned from Sierra Leone to the U.S. in October. She was quarantined in an urgent care clinic in New Jersey for four days even if she didn’t show any Ebola symptoms.
The nurse did express her displeasure of the way that Maine Governor Paul LePage and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie responded and handled her case.
There are a number of states in the U.S. that have decided to implement mandatory quarantining of those health workers from the urgent care clinic near me in the Ebola-ravaged parts of Africa namely Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. This is amid the federal government’s wariness in discouraging possible medical volunteers. The most deadly Ebola outbreak on record has already killed almost 5,000 poor victims with many of them coming from the mentioned West African countries.
Aside from Nurse Kaci Hickox, there’s another patient that is suspected to have been infected by Ebola and is now monitored in North Carolina after arriving from Liberia last week tested negative for the disease so far. This is according to one of the statements released by the state health officials on Monday. Along with this statement, it was also announced that the results are still yet to be established after the 21 days quarantine period for Ebola.
The quarantined patient arrived in the country at the New Jersey Newark Liberty International Airport on the 31st of October and had developed a fever on November 2. Now this person will be closely monitored in isolation and will be provided with careful and urgent care in Durham’s Duke University Hospital.
In the United States, there’s just one person who is currently being treated for Ebola and it is not Kaci Hickox but a New York doctor who is said to be in a stable condition already.
