Pauline Cafferkey who has family roots in Rannyhual near Kincasslagh was infected while working in Sierra Leone in 2014.
Advertisement
The nurse, from Cambuslang near Glasgow, was accused of allowing a lower temperature to be recorded during checks on her return to Heathrow from the West African country.
However, he said that a nurse close by when he read out the figures, Registrant A, said she would record the temperature as 37.2 degrees on her screening form and they would “get out of here and sort it out”.
Cafferkey’s case will be heard in Edinburgh at a fitness to practise hearing that is likely to extend to Wednesday.
It is claimed she omitted to tell the Public Health England screening staff who took her temperature at the airport that she had recently taken paracetamol which might have affected her temperature reading.
A doctor in her group, referred to as Doctor 1, took her temperature twice at 38.2C then 38.3C.
Public Health England’s health protection consultant was informed and the information passed to the ebola screening manager at Heathrow.
In July, Ms Cafferkey spoke of her stress over the fact that the misconduct allegations remained unresolved more than 18 months on from her return to the UK.
“Ms Cafferkey has stated she recalls the words “let’s get out of here” being used but now can not remember who said it or who entered the temperature of 37.2 on her screening form”.
Draft allegations claiming that the 40-year-old intentionally tried to hide that her temperature was over 38 degrees during a screening.
Pauline Cafferkey is accused of concealing her elevated temperature from health officials when she returned to Britain with the virus.
She is the only patient ever to have developed a reactivation of ebola 10 months after.
The hearing was told: “Ms Cafferkey had an extremely severe presentation, requiring non-invasive ventilation and multiple medical interventions with a very protracted illness course”.
The Scot has since had two further admissions to hospital – one with a relapse of the Ebola virus and the other with chronic meningitis.
Advertisement
An NMC spokesman said it would provide a statement either once the charges had been confirmed – if the hearing is not held in private – or after the hearing has concluded, which is scheduled for tomorrow.
