article_snippet: (CNN)She was the first person to contract Ebola in the United States, and now Nina Pham's suing the hospital where Nina Pham got infected.
article_snippet: I was hoping that THR would be more open and honest about everything that happened at a Dallas hospital, and the things they didn't do that led to Pham getting infected with Ebola," Pham said in a statement.
article_snippet: Nina and so many others of you served very bravely during a most difficult time as we all struggled to deal with the first case of Ebola to arrive in a U.S. hospital's emergency room," a statement read.
article_snippet: Pham contracted Ebola last fall while treating Thomas Eric Duncan, who started showing symptoms after arriving in Dallas from Liberia.
article_snippet: Had THR heeded the CDC and other warnings and ensured THR hospitals were ready for Ebola, Mr. Duncan would have had the best opportunity to possibly survive," THR says.
article_snippet: Pham served very bravely during a most difficult time as we all struggled to deal with the first case of Ebola to arrive in a U.S. hospital's emergency room.
article_snippet: Comparing the conditions facing nurses to what one would expect in a poorly developed country, the suit further states that after Duncan died, Pham was told Nina was at "no risk" for Ebola "and that Nina could freely see Nina friends and family.
article_snippet: Another nurse treating Duncan, Amber Vinson, also contracted Ebola.
article_snippet: Both nurses recovered after being sent to hospitals specially equipped and staffed to handle Ebola -- Pham at the National Institutes of Health in Maryland, and Vinson at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.
highlights_snippet: Nina Pham contracted Ebola while treating a patient at a Dallas hospital .
  