Ebola update: Hospital staff call Rajoy 'coward' and throw latex gloves at him
Friday, October 10, 2014 @ 8:09 PM
HOSPITAL workers at the Carlos III heckled Spanish president Mariano Rajoy and regional government leader Ignacio González as they left the premises, throwing latex gloves at their cars.
Calling them cowards, staff in uniform got as close as they could to the official vehicles - and some of them rubbed their faces with gloves on, a gesture of support for Ebola patient Teresa Romero who speculated she may have caught the disease by doing the same after treating missionary doctor Manuel García Viejo.
They blame funding cuts and redundancies in the health service - which severely affected the Carlos III hospital, Spain's only specialist unit for treating infectious and tropical diseases, two months after it was known that the Ebola virus was out of control in Africa.
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