Nigeria Government Accuses Liberian Ebola Carrier Of Deliberately Bringing The Deadly Virus Into Nigeria
How The Liberian, Patrick Sawyer Urinated On Health Workers Who Told Him He Had Ebola
Late Patrick Sawyer Who Brought The Ebola Virus Into Nigeria
Nigerian Government today accused the Late Patrick Sawyer of intentionally conveying the deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) into the country from his home country, Liberia.
This was made know by the Minister of Health while speaking before the House of Representatives’ Committee on Health over the Ebola outbreak, the minister of health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, disclosed that Sawyer “knew he was sick” with the virus before entering Nigeria.
According to the minister he told surprised members of the House that the Liberian knew that he had been infected with the dreaded disease and had also been warned not to travel out of Liberia, but he defied the order to make the trip to Nigeria, putting scores of people at risk.
Meanwhile in a related development, infected Liberian was said to have gone into a fury when hospital workers informed him of the diagnosis
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.
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.
The medium reports thus; “…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. Please advise urgently.”
FrontPageAfrica has now 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.
FrontPageAfrica reports that In the aftermath of Sawyer’s death, diplomatic, ECOWAS and medical authorities here are baffled over Sawyer’s deception, especially armed with new information that his sister, Princess had died of the deadly virus and his denial. Finance Ministry sources in Monrovia are inquiet murmur over what they feel was a let-down by Sawyer for not being forthcoming with his peers he worked with.
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.
For Sawyer, questions are lingering over his behavior, both at the Catholic Hospital in Monrovia and the First Consultants in Lagos and what led him to behave the way he did. More importantly diplomatic observers here are puzzled over his demise: The timing and behavior. A few persons who spoke to Sawyer, including FrontPageAfrica reported that he sounded fine hours before his death. It is unclear what pushed him to the wall and why?
Former Nigeria President, Chief Oluesgun Obasanjo yesterday lambasted the Liberian Government and the late Patrick Swayer the Liberian-American who brought Ebola disease into Nigeria, as he said that it is; “devilish enough that Patrick Sawyer in connivance with some Liberian authorities,” brought the evil into the country.According to Obasanjo he…
