Patients at Lewisham hospital, London panicked and tried to flee when they saw doctors wearing protective outfits wheel in an elderly woman, The Sun UK reports.
The elderly woman was kept in the ambulance for an hour before finally being taken in for tests.
A witness told the paper: ‘There was panic. Luckily, there was a glass wall between us and the potential victim’.
They added that there were around 40 people in the A&E department when the ambulance arrived.
She was later sent home as she was deemed low risk and is awaiting results from her tests.
Earlier this month Lewisham Hospital Trust denied that there was panic among staff when a patient arrived from Sierra Leone.
He was treated by medics in aprons, masks and gloves and not hazmat suits.
It was claimed that he had used communal toilets and was allowed visitors. He turned out not to have the disease.