In December, a man who spent so much time at the Charter Oak Health Center he would welcome people who came in died of tuberculosis.
A few weeks later, as 140 employees and patients were tested for TB, two employees were fired -- unfairly, they say.
"For reporting this mismanagement," said Doreen Coburn, former vice president, "and misappropriation of funds to the appropriate agencies, federal and state."
Her lawyer took her claim to the Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities.
"She should have cooperated," with those supervising agencies, said David Bush, the lawyer, "and again, it is our claim that termination was not warranted. Instead, it was really because she acted as a whistleblower," he said.
He also brought a claim from Germaine Washington, who worked in the Healthy Start program for expectant mothers at Charter Oak, of similar unfair termination.
Washington admits to meeting with officials from the Department of Public Health about management at the health center.
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"They in fact contacted her in an effort to obtain information," Bush said. "She cooperated as she should and we believe that as a result of that cooperation and the information she provided she was subsequently terminated."
Bush said the women seek reinstatement to their jobs or some similar remedy from CHRO.
"I don't know what's gong to happen at the end of this legal action. I just know that at the end of this, I know I will be vindicated and everything that I've stated has been truthful," said Coburn.
