Senate Republican Leader Tom Kean (R-21) and Senator Bob Singer (R-30), the ranking Republican member of the Senate Health Committee, sent the following letter to New Jersey Health Commissioner Mary O’Dowd seeking an update on the preparedness of the Department of Health to effectively respond and protect the public should persons infected with the Ebola virus be identified in the state.
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Since individual hospital protocol are not all mainstreamed, how will the state heath commissioner be in a position to dictate that protocol to a hospital should an Ebola patient be present?