Pauline Cafferkey, a nurse from Lanarkshire, was cleared of any personal misconduct at a Nursing and Midwifery Council hearing in Edinburgh last week ReutersPauline Cafferkey, the British nurse who survived ebola, has said she was made a “scapegoat” for the failings of public health officials who cleared her to fly home to Scotland with the deadly virus. Ms Cafferkey, a nurse from Lanarkshire, was cleared of any personal misconduct at a Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) hearing in Edinburgh last week, relating to her return from Sierra Leone. The NMC hearing found Ms Cafferkey, 40, was in a “diminished medical state” when she arrived back at Heathrow in 2014, with the early stages of ebola, after a six-week spell at an emergency medical…

Source: The Times September 18, 2016 23:02 UTC