It’s utterly illogical and I’d like to see someone at Public Health England try and justify and explain why – if they said we weren’t to go into crowded places or public transport once we were home – why people could use public transport to get from the airport.”ĭeahl, from Newport in Shropshire, was one of 30 NHS volunteers to help tackle the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone. “It just begs the question whether they gave that advice because they didn’t want to spend the money on taking us home.
“The ridiculous thing about this is the advice says once we are home we shouldn’t use public transport or go into crowded places, or if we do it should just be for short journeys of less than an hour, and yet they were quite happy to let us go home disperse from UK airports on the underground, on flights to Glasgow, which just makes a complete mockery of the quarantine arrangements,” Deahl said.
Under current guidelines, health workers who have been in direct contact with Ebola victims are allowed to catch public transport once they arrive at a UK airport to travel home – but once they are at home they are told not to catch buses, trains or planes or enter crowded places. Ebola is not contagious before patients develop symptoms, and Scottish health authorities have confirmed that the nurse had none until she arrived home. He described the scenes at Freetown airport in Sierra Leone, where up to 30 volunteers who had met to travel back to the UK said goodbye ,“kissing and hugging” one another – including the nurse.
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