Saturday 9 August 2014

Patrick Sawyer simple instruction a grown man like him could not obey"How he denied carrying the virus"

I read this a few days ago,and I think its good to post it so that an emphasis is made to those who have had direct contact to an ebola victim,the only way to curb it is to report yourself so you can be contained to avoid the spread.
A new and extensive report by Front Page Africa chronicles his last hours in Lagos. Read below
    "Barely 24 hours before his death, Patrick Sawyer had a rather strange - and in the words of medical and diplomatic sources here, “Indiscipline” encounter with nurses and health workers at First Consultants Hospital in Obalende, one of the most crowded parts of Lagos, a population of some 21 million inhabitants.


Looking to get to the bottom of Sawyer’s strange ailment on the Asky Airline flight, which Sawyer transferred on in Togo, hospital officials say, he was tested for both malaria and HIV AIDS. However, when both tests came back negative, he was then asked whether he had made contact with any person with the Ebola Virus, to which Sawyer denied. Sawyer’s sister, Princess had died of the deadly virus on Monday, July 7, 2014 at the Catholic Hospital in Monrovia. On Friday, July 25, 2014, 18 days later, Sawyer died in Lagos.

 "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.” 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 in quiet murmur over what they feel was a letdown by Sawyer for not being forthcoming with his peers he worked with.

 The ministry has since been temporarily shut down and those who came in contact with Sawyer are on a 21-day forced incubation monitoring process. "All senior officials coming in direct or indirect contact with Mr. Sawyer has been placed on the prescribed 21 days of observatory surveillance," the ministry said in a statement this week. FrontPageAfrica has now learnt that Sawyer exhibited similar indiscipline behavior 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.

10 comments:

Tim said...

Noway it will happen,Nigerians,they run to their villages

Anonymous said...

It sounds like music to the hear,but which uneducated or a mother for that matter will abandon her child,she will rather say she will die with her child and be doing local treatment on the child.That is the problem,Nigerians/Africans are very emotional people.

Afam said...

Sentiments.That is why we are still backward

Anonymous said...

BUT WHY

Bayo said...

NA PRAYER,ALL LEADERS IN VARIOUS CHURCHES THIS IS THE TIME TO PROVE YOUR MISSION,GOD BIG PASS EBOLA

Anonymous said...

That means ebola victims are in TOGO,since he urinated on one the health workers there

Anonymous said...

The so called isolation photo I saw that was built in Lagos for these victim is not encouraging

Philip said...

Close all boarders,so that other west African countries can stop entering till the situation is under control

Anonymous said...

I said it that it was intentional

Anonymous said...

Philip you must be jobless,so all business shld shut down because of Ebola,please talk like an a enlightened person that is if you are