Spain PM visits hospital treating Ebola patient

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MADRID (AP) — Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy made a surprise visit Friday to the Madrid hospital where a nursing assistant infected with Ebola is being treated, trying to brush aside criticism from unions and opposition politicians alleging the national health care system provided substandard high-risk disease training and protective gear to doctors, nurses and ambulance personnel.

A group of health care workers jeered, shouting “Out! Out!” as Rajoy’s motorcade drove past and one protester threw small objects at it.

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