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Dallas Nurse, Ebola Survivor Nina Pham to File Lawsuit Against Texas Health Resources

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Getty 030115 NinaPham?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1425228842383JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images(DALLAS) — Dallas nurse Nina Pham is expected to file a lawsuit against Texas Health Resources calling out the company for their role in her having contracted Ebola last year/

In an exclusive story, the Dallas Morning News reports that Pham cites the company’s lack of training and lack of proper equipment as part of the reason she contracted the disease while treating Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan. She also says the company violated her privacy , making her “a symbol of corporate neglect.”

Pham told the newspaper that she has nightmares, body aches and insomnia as a result of contracting Ebola. “I wanted to believe [the company] would have my back and take care of me,” she says. “But they just haven’t risen to the occasion.”

Pham told the Morning News that she will file her lawsuit on Monday, asking for “unspecified damages for physical pain and mental anguish, medical expenses and loss of future earnings.” Perhaps more importantly, Pham said, she wants to “make hospitals and big corporations realize that nurses and health care workers, especially frontline people, are important.”


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