Louisville, Kentucky – Susan Sherman, a Kentucky teacher have decided to resign over the forced Ebola scare leave after she travelled to Kenya.
Rather than enjoying a paid leave, the Kentucky catholic school teacher chose to resign after the parents of many students of St. Margaret Mary School have raised their concerns about her Kenya trip. This country is by the way one continent away from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa as reported by WDRB Channel 41 TV.
Aside from working as a religious education teacher, Sherman is a registered nurse who just recently volunteered in a mission in Eastern Africa. When she got back to the U.S., she was requested by the school to take 21 days leave from work which is the isolation period for Ebola. The forced Ebola leave scare had the teacher stressed out after she was required to produce a health certificate from an urgent care clinic near me proving that she is negative from the disease.
Sherman, who’ve been teaching religious education to 7th and 8th graders just decided to resign instead of taking 21 days of paid leave and secure a health certificate after getting tested in an urgent care clinic.
Reaching the teacher wasn’t easy for WDRB Channel 41 TV and the questions addressed to the school were all referred to the Archdiocese.
The chief communications officer for the Archdiocese Cecelia Price said that the forced Ebola scare leave move came from St. Margaret Mary School itself.
What the forced Ebola scare leave that made Susan Sherman decide to just resign is only one of the many cases wherein a person who’ve traveled from West Africa and its neighboring continents have been required to avoid getting in contact with the public until they test negative of the fatal disease.
There are a number of states in the U.S. that have already implemented mandatory quarantines on nurses, doctors and many other health workers from the three countries in West Africa that have been ravaged by Ebola namely Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. This act is made by the states while the federal government is wary of discouraging health workers from volunteering to provide urgent care to Ebola patients.
The Ebola outbreak has made the world worry about their safety because this fatal disease has already killed almost 5,000 people and most of them are in West Africa.
Aside from the teacher that decided to just resign because of the forced Ebola scare leave, there is a nurse doctor in Maine that is closely monitored by state officials right now after she went back to her hometown from Sierra Leone where she worked in one of the urgent care clinics there helping Ebola patients.
