 |
| Patrick Sawyer,new revelations about reckless behaviour which might have endangered lives of many in Lagos Hospital. |
Ebola Crisis-Revelations have surfaced of how Patrick Sawyer,the Liberian born American citizen's reckless behaviour might have endangered the lives of many in the hospital
where he was being treated in Lagos,Nigeria.According to new reports,Sawyer went into a rage when he was told he had the Ebola virus.
Crazily and unbelievably Patrick Sawyer was said to have pulled down his trousers at the First Consultants Hospital in Obalende,where he was being treated,urinating on the staff attending to him!
He is said to have been uncooperative as well in Liberia when he visited his sister in hospital,part of his recklessness resulted in his sister bleeding all over him!
FrontPage Africa reports :
"...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.”
Front Page Africa 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 of Liberia 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 died today, 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.