The hospital where Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan died strenuously defended his treatment on Thursday and said he was given the highest level of care 'regardless of nationality or ability to pay'. The Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas was responding to claims from the 42-year-old Liberian's family that he was given substandard treatment because he was 'a poor black man'. The hospital said Mr Duncan had been cared for by a team of over 50 doctors and nurses, 24 hours a day. Good treatment: Texas Health Presbyterian said Thomas Eric Duncan, above, had the best available care after his family claimed he was discriminated against because he was a 'poor black man'
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Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital said he had been cared for by a team of over 50 doctors and given the most 'appropriate and available' care
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Was response to claims from the 42-year-old Liberian's family that he was given substandard treatment because he was 'a poor black man'
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Hospital said he couldn't get ZMapp drug - which other victims were treated with - as there is no supply, and there was no match for a blood transfusion
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Also defended the two-day delay in Mr Duncan being taken into hospital
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Rev Jesse Jackson had earlier told MSNBC: 'There's a fact of anti-immigrant, anti-refugee, anti-black. It's very real in our country'
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