A doctor who sat next to a British nurse with Ebola on her flight home to the UK from Sierra Leone said today the 'shambolic' handling of her case could help the killer disease spread.
Dr Martin Deahl landed at Heathrow with Pauline Cafferkey and around 30 other NHS volunteers on Sunday but said staff testing them for Ebola 'didn't seem to know what they were doing'.
He also criticised Public Health England's (PHE) rules on travel, which say 'high risk' medics returning from Ebola-hit regions should take public transport home but then avoid planes, trains and buses for three weeks after that.
Since then the authorities have been desperately trying to trace the 70 other people who were on board the same internal flight, and the 133 who were on her plane from Casablanca. Passengers on the plane will now be monitored by NHS officials via phone.
Today it has also emerged that public health officials are understood to have advised the Government that there is no need to disinfect or decontaminate any environment Ms Cafferkey came into contact with en route home to Glasgow.
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Pictured: This is Pauline Cafferkey, the Scottish NHS nurse from just outside Glasgow who is believed to have contracted Ebola while working for Save the Children treating the sick in Sierra Leone
Transfer: The nurse was diagnosed with Ebola yesterday and was seen today walking from an ambulance at Glasgow Airport as she was moved by military aircraft to London this morning
'Shambolic': Dr Martin Deahl, pictured, sat next to the nurse on their flight home to London and said the testing at Heathrow failed and Public Health England has put the public at risk
Journey: Miss Cafferkey left Sierra Leone on Sunday on her long journey back to Glasgow via Casablanca and Heathro
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