According to FrontPage
Africa, the last acts of Patrick Sawyer, the Ebola infected Liberian who
died in Lagos, might have resulted in the transfer of the virus to
innocent health workers.
Disturbing reports have it that the infected Liberian went into a rage when hospital workers informed him of the diagnosis.
Mr. Sawyer died on July 25 in Lagos
Mr. Sawyer is said to
have had an "indiscipline" encounter with nurses and health workers at
the First Consultants Hospital in Obalende where he was being treated.
According to the report,
Mr. Sawyer was asked if he had come into contact with anyone who had
the virus but he answered in the negative.
Doctors at the hospital
decided to test him anyway and when they told him he had Ebola, he
allegedly went into a rage and urinated on the health workers attending
to him.
"...Upon being told he
had Ebola, Mr. Sawyer went into a rage, denying and objecting to the
opinion of the medical experts. “He was so adamant and difficult that he
took the tubes from his body and took off his pants and urinated on the
health workers, forcing them to flee."
The hospital would later
report that it resisted immense pressure to let out Sawyer from its
hospital against the insistence from some higher-ups and conference
organizers that he had a key role to play at the ECOWAS convention in
Calabar, the Cross River State capital.
In fact,
FrontPageAfrica has been informed that officials in Monrovia were in
negotiations with ECOWAS to have Sawyer flown back to Liberia.
A text message in
possession of FrontPageAfrica from the ECOWAS Ambassador in Liberia,
responding to a senior GoL official reads: Your Excellency, the disease
control department of the Federal Ministry of Health just contacted me
through the hospital now, insisting that Mr. Sawyer be evacuated for
now. Pls advise urgently.”
It was learnt that
Sawyer exhibited similar indiscipline behaviour during his sister’s stay
at the Catholic Hospital in Monrovia where she was taken because he
noticed she was bleeding profusely and was later found to be a victim of
Ebola.
Sawyer was seen with
blood on his clothing after his sister’s death and had earlier demanded
that she be placed in a private room.
President Ellen
Johnson-Sirleaf cited indiscipline and disrespect as a key reason why
Sawyer contracted the Ebola virus. She said his failure to heed medical
advice put the lives of other residents across the nation’s border at
risk.
As one of the nurses who
treated Sawyer has died in Nigeris, fears are currently being fanned in
the country with some people suggesting that he might have knowingly
spread the disease.
The Nigerian Minister of
Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu has confirmed 7 cases of the disease and has
assured that urgent measures are being put in place to ensure that the
virus does not spread further.
*I am beginning to agree with the belief that Mr Sawyerr wickedly entered Nigeria knowing he had the virus!......This thought alone is so annoying!

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