Controls and a lack of oversight, but we have also seen the departments take our controls and implement them, so they are working hard to improve their environment and their internal controls and oversight. To do that, have you published a manual, a set of guidelines . What have you done . It meetings you conduct on training . We have published a number of reports. You are looking at our latest report from january 2014, and we published a number of reports i believe two in 2013 and one in 2012. Your report talks about some of the problems, sort of an audit or overview of what is a simple but is there guideline that you publish . We do not publish a guideline for the department. That would be a management function. We have provided recommendations on what they should include. Have they published that to your satisfaction . Yes, sir. Again, we have some noncompliance at significant levels. Thate see you testified the department of defense or at least the air force you are speaking for ai
Word on the street. Im walking up georgia avenue, there may be an ebola case in my hospital. I appreciate that. Reporter Howard University hospital also says the hospital is working with the centers for Disease Control and prevention, and the d. C. Department of health. At best, what they can do at this stage is monitor the patient. At best, what those who live or regularly visit the campus can do is be vigilant. I think its very important to any faculty of the university to take the right precautions to protect themselves and be knowledgeable about the situation going on today. Reporter and the d. C. Department of health tells us they are indeed aware of this. They are monitoring this, and as we have been stressing, there is nothing wrong with stressing this again, there has been no confirmed case of the ebola virus in the district of columb columbia. Derrick ward, news4. Back to you. The parents of a freelance photographer working for nbc news who tested positive for ebola say their
Federal Health Experts are warning that we may see more cases of ebola in texas now that a nurse there who treated patient Thomas Duncan has been diagnosed with the virus. The cdc is still racing to identify exactly how the nurse was infected. Nbcs Chris Pallone has the latest. Reporter monday a cleanup crew that specializes in Hazardous Materials worked to deacon tam nature a dallas apartment. The woman who lives there is a nurse at texas presbyterian hospital. She was diagnosed with the ebola virus over the weekend. I feel awful that a Health Care Worker became infected in the care of an ebola patient. She was there trying to help the first patient survive. And now she has become infected. Reporter the theres for Disease Control says a breach of protocol led to the first person to person ebola transmission in the United States and is leading Top Health Officials to reexamine ebola patients. We have to rethink the way we address ebola infection control. Because even a single infection
Christian university in 2010. Right now she is hospitalized in stable condition. Cdc Officials Say over the weekend there was a breach of protocol, but they still havent been specific about what that breach involved. 48 others who provided care to the original patient, thomas duncan, are also being monitored right now, and Officials Say they wouldnt be surprised by more cases. If this one individual was infected and we dont know how, within the isolation unit, then it is possible that other individuals could have been infected as well. So we consider them to potentially be at risk and were doing an in depth review and investigation. Also tonight, the cdc is planning to hold a nationwide training Conference Call tomorrow. This is to help educate thousands of Health Care Workers and to ensure they will be fully prepared to treat a patient with ebola if they have to. At the live desk, im pat lawson muse. Back to you. Well, a nurses union survey finds three out of four nurses feel their ho
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