United States nurse quarantined over Ebola calls treatment 'frenzy of disorganization'

Illinois joined New York and New Jersey in imposing mandatory quarantines for people arriving with a risk of having contracted Ebola in West Africa, but the first person isolated under the new rules, a nurse returning from Sierra Leone, called her treatment a "frenzy of disorganization."

Kaci Hickox, who arrived at Newark airport in New Jersey on Friday, described hours of questioning by officials in protective gear and what she said was a mis-diagnosis of fever, followed by a transfer to a hospital isolation tent.

Not long after Hickox's criticisms were made public, it was announced that the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, is traveling to Guinea on Sunday. She will also visit Liberia and Sierra Leone, making the trip despite calls by some U.S. lawmakers for a travel ban on the three West African countries worst-affected by Ebola.

Power, a member of President Barack Obama's cabinet, left Washington on Saturday.

Obama has resisted Republican calls for a travel ban on advice from health officials who say such a measure would be counter-productive, in part because it would impede people going to help fight the epidemic. Concern over Ebola has become a political issue ahead of November 4 congressional elections.

Hickox, in an article published on Saturday by The Dallas Morning News on its website, said she worried about what was in store for other American health workers trying to help combat the epidemic that has killed thousands in West Africa.

"I ... thought of many colleagues who will return home to America and face the same ordeal. Will they be made to feel like criminals and prisoners?" she wrote.

"I am scared that, like me, they will arrive and see a frenzy of disorganization, fear and, most frightening, quarantine," wrote Hickox, who was working for the medical charity

I don't see any issues with them being quarantined for a while till health officials are a 100 percent sure your Ebola free. take it as your civic duty to your country. you don't have to bleeding take placards for every issue. this is freaking EBOLA!! we are talking about here for God sake.

Source India.com