It is with a heavy heart that i write this.......Granted that Patrick Sawyer brought this upon us in Nigeria, but now that we fully understand the virus and it's implications, aren't we expected as individuals to be responsible for ourselves so as to better manage the crisis?
The government and health workers have done their bit, which is to provide us with extensive education about the virus and it's level of widespread. However, It's annoying that those people you expect to understand the situation, like doctors and health workers, are the ones now spreading the virus and thus putting the lives of their loved ones at risk....and these loved ones also put others at risk...OMG the list goes on.!
The latest development is that of one of the doctors who was in first consultant hospital when Sawyer was there LIED about having any contact with Mr Sawyer
and his actions is about to cause an uproar again.
We all know that this hospital was where Mr Sawyer breathed his last. Subsequently, the Lagos State Ministry of health ensured that they carried out a thorough scrutiny of all the doctors and nurses on duty that day, just to know who had any contact with Mr Sawyer. Only a few answered in the affirmative and they were monitored. While the other consultants and nurses said that they never had any contact with Sawyer.
One of the doctors who denied contact with Sawyer fell sick days ago and started to exhibit the symptoms of Ebola. Rather than take extra precautions or isolate himself, or be taken to where the government has designated for the purpose, he called his pastor to come pray for him. His pastor got to his house,however on seeing that his( doctor's) condition was very critical, the pastor put him in his car along with his wife and they were taken to the hospital.
He was treated in the hospital upon declaring that he had a history of stroke. He however refused to disclose that he had the Ebola symptoms. Even though this doctor was sure that he had been infected with Ebola,he hid it from the doctor who attended to him. He returned home with his wife after treatment. Only for him to die at home 2 days after. Cause of death? Ebola!!!
Now this is what I find intriguing,shocking and annoying. The doctor's wife understood that her husband had Ebola. She knows the cause of death is Ebola. He died in the house, and the next thing was that she called for her husband to be embalmed right there in their home.
Who's next apart from his wife?
The pastor...he was oblivious to this danger but now has to be traced for monitoring. The doctor's wife, kids, household staff, pastor's relatives, and everyone else that was around him have to be close marked too. Not leaving out the morgue attendants that carried out the embalming, they also have to be traced for monitoring. At the last count, about 40 people have to be quickly reached and isolated to ensure that they are OK.
Where do we start from?
Late Doctor Adadevoh's sister caused an uproar days ago at the hotel where she was lodged by her family members. She was put there in isolation because she had close body contacts with her sister before she died. She submitted for testing but the results are not yet out to confirm whether she has been infected with Ebola.
The Lagos state ministry of health have endeavoured to put her under close monitoring and she is now in LASUTH where she awaits her blood test results. Contrary to public reports that it was the Lagos state ministry of health officials that put her up in a hotel, it was actually her family members that put her there.
My grievance is with the so called doctors and other health care experts of first consultant hospital. Just in case there are any more liked this doctor who denied contact with Sawyer, please for the love of God come out and get help. PLEASE!
Why are make this issue more difficult than it already? If you are asked to submit yourself, or asked the details of your body contact with Sawyer while he was in the hospital, it is for your own good. Denial is what has killed this doctor who died days ago. Now his wife,his pastor, and others who surrounded him until his death ARE ALL A HEALTH RISK AND MUST BE QUARANTINED.
..Just When we thought that we were on top of our game with eradicating Ebola form our midst, some so called enlightened folks are making a mess of it and taking us Back to square one.
The search for these people begins in earnest...THEY MUST ALL BE QUARANTINED TO PREVENT AN OUTBREAK OF THE EBOLA DISEASE IN LAGOS!
Please if you know you have had close contact with anyone whom you suspect is displaying symptoms of Ebola,please save your loved ones and go for test..PLEASE!!!!
The Lagos Ministry of health is already on this issue and everyone involved will be quarantined before this weekend is over...please submit yourself for quarantined if you know you are a health risk!
Credit:Stella Dimokorkus
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