Ebola:Nigerians descend on Sawyer's wife for defending husband

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <header class="post-header cf" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="featured" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/sawyer-mrs.jpg" itemprop="image" rel="prettyPhoto" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Ebola: Nigerians descend on Sawyer’s widow"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="sawyer mrs" class="attachment-main-slider wp-post-image no-display appear" height="336" src="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/sawyer-mrs-702x336.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Ebola: Nigerians descend on Sawyer’s widow" width="702" /></span></a></div> <h1 class="post-title" itemprop="name" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 35px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ebola: Nigerians descend on Sawyer’s widow</span></span></h1> <a class="comments" href="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=77340#comments" style="border: 0px; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 0px -35px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="fa fa-comments-o" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"></span> </span></span></a></header><div class="post-container cf" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="post-content-right" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="post-content description" itemprop="articleBody" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px -1.857em; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></strong></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">■ For defending husband</strong></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Decontee Sawyer, widow of the late Liberian-American, Patrick Sawyer who imported the deadly Ebola virus into Nigeria has come under scathing criticisms from Nigerians for defending her late hus­band’s mission in Nigeria at a time he was said to have been placed under medical surveillance by authorities in Liberia for showing symptoms of the virus.<b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></b></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Initial reports about the Liberian’s mission in Nigeria had claimed that the late Sawyer flew into Nigeria on July 20, 2014 with intention of participating in an ECOWAS event that held in Calabar. However in a swift defense his widow, was reported by TMZ, a Liberian magazine, to have said her late husband came to Nigeria for proper medical attention as he didn’t have trust in Liberia’s healthcare system.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The magazine credited Sawyer’s widow to have said, “I’ve read other reports in other papers (not the New York Times) about Patrick’s ‘recklessness.’ I get where they’re coming from, and they certainly have the right to feel the way they do. However, as Patrick’s widow, I would like to shed some light on this from another perspective. One that only I, his wife, would know,” she wrote.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I knew Patrick better than anybody else (including him). He had told me many times in the past how much he didn’t trust the Li­berian healthcare system. He would tell me about how a person would get checked in for one thing, and get misdiagnosed and get the wrong treatment as a result. On top of that, Patrick was a clean freak, and told me how filthy a lot of the hospitals were.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“He didn’t tell me this, but I know in my heart of hearts that Patrick was determined to get to Nigeria by all means because he felt that Nigeria would be a place of refuge. He had expressed to me so many times in the past, how passionately he felt about helping to be a part of strengthening Liberia’s healthcare system, because he knew it wasn’t there yet, and he wouldn’t want to take a chance with his life because a lot of people depended on him- Patrick had a passion for life, and he wouldn’t have wanted it to end this way. So, I bet the only thing that he was thinking was, ‘if only I could get to Nigeria, a way more developed country than Liberia, I would be able to get some help.’ How ironic!”</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ostensibly piqued by the ravaging effect of Ebola virus in the country, many Nige­rians have taken to social media to express their anger against the defense put forward by Sawyer’s widow. A<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Facebook </i>user, Engineer Ogbodo Joy, called on Sawyer’s widow to go for an Ebola test rather than try to defend her late husband whom he dubbed Ebola terrorist. “The wife of the Ebola terrorist should just have her mouth shut, instead of making a whole lot of noise. Hope she has gone for her own treatment of the disease, or is she waiting to see a country where she would go and spread the virus as her husband did or is she waiting for our na­tion to get over the disease that her husband infested us with, before she comes over to Nigeria and infect us with her own disease, since Nigeria has become their abode where they can always come over to spread the deadly disease. Nigeria has now become the best nation for every medical attention,” he said cynically.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In another reaction, Rabiu Muhammed asked rather rhetorically, “why didn’t your husband travel to America for quality health care service,” adding, “Good health care my foot! Pure terrorist, now he will sure get the good health care he needs by taking along all those he has infected and killed. Don’t know how such a callous soul will find rest. He is absolutely wicked, what stopped him from telling every one that he has Ebola or was he dumb on arrival. Wondering if he was even paid by those evil Boko Haram,”</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Nonso Ekpunobi expressed doubt over Sawyer’s widow’s defence saying: “May the good Lord forgive your husband for delib­erately putting the lives of over 140 million people into such risk. You should immedi­ately apologize to the President you insulted while offering your lame and unintelligent excuses.”</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Amina Dauda had no kind word for the bereaved widow either: “She works as a radio host in New York and she didn’t advise her hubby to seek good medical help in US. She should tell her stupid cooked up story to the dead. The money they paid them for this dastardly act, will cause their downfall,”</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Arrant nonsense, rubbish!” Stella-Maris Obianiberi Imeri thundered in her Facebook post. “Patrick Sawyer was an American citizen, why didn’t he head for America to get the best medical care?</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Toye Olori, had a similar question for Mrs. Sawyer, “If he knew he had such a disease and wanted help, is the U.S, where the wife works and stays not the best place to go seek medical attention? Why head to Nigeria where we also complain of inade­quate health facilities. Did he not know that health workers in Nigeria were on strike and Nigerians were losing their lives daily due to lack of treatment? The woman should just shut up. He was used by the devil to bring problems on an already troubled nation period. God help us,” Olori noted.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For Abdul Kolawole, the late Sawyer’s visit to Nigeria when he was aware of having contracted the virus, is indefensible, “Your husband’s action is indefensible. He was avoiding contact with fellow Liberians in Monrovia, but he allowed unsuspecting Nigerians to have unrestrained access to him on arrival in Nigeria and didn’t disclose to care-givers at the hospital he was rushed to in Lagos that he had Ebola. He didn’t disclose his Ebola status at the airport to seek help, which you claimed he desperately wanted. Rather he claimed to be suffering from malaria and it was after two tests on him for malaria had returned negative that he was suspected to be a carrier of Ebola. Even after being told about this suspicion, he went into some kind of rage, removed his drip, spilled some blood and got many infected. What can be more wicked and crazy than this behavior? With your defense, Mrs. Sawyer, you are also an accomplice,” Kolawole noted.</span></div> <div> <br /></div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

Ebola:Nigerians descend on Sawyer's wife for defending husband

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New Ebola Ward Replaces Old One

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Photo: New Ebola Ward reportedly opened in Lagos</span></span></h3> <div class="post-header" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em;"> <div class="post-header-line-1"> </div> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-4888524738755292695" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 616px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQZ8ug9WLipGWb7gJXZ9wRPYfZD1b4PlpidQ0KV_gITTD9Xw8vrBj7h2H8g0mgMksgtNSiPEY3_aGZtkn9MDIf7Cuje4niIfiielpmKVsOLGRUzA3Tuj8zDWpeipdvonSPRxeEvbIrfig/s1600/7.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 0, 0); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px;" /></span></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-4888524738755292695" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 616px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> Saw this pic on the twitter page of the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. They said the newly opened ward is designed to care for Ebola Virus Disease positive patients, isolating them from EVD negative patients. They didn't say where in Nigeria it was opened...</span></div> </div>

New Ebola Ward Replaces Old One

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Ebola: Nigerians blast US FDA for calling its experimental drug, pesticide

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">U. S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) suffers  huge social media backlash from Nigerians yesterday, over its description of Nano Silver as a pesticide, a drug which was recently announced by the country’s Health Minister, Onyebuchi Chukwu, to be an experimental treatment of patients affected with the deadly Ebola disease.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://dvsl3w2q45hb8.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Ebola-Fashola11.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.2s linear, border-top-color; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color 0.2s linear, border-top-color; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Ebola-Fashola1" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-459859" height="266" src="http://dvsl3w2q45hb8.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Ebola-Fashola11.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: margin 0.2s linear, box-shadow; border: none; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition: margin 0.2s linear, box-shadow;" width="412" /></span></a></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The FDA’s warning was made  on the heels of comments by Chukwu, who reportedly said on Thursday that eight Ebola patients in Lagos will receive an experimental treatment called nano-silver.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The agency said it had received consumer complaints about the Ebola claims. “Individuals promoting these unapproved and fraudulent products must take immediate action to correct or remove these claims or face potential FDA action,” the agency said. <a href="http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/ebola-nano-silve-pesticide-says-us-fda/" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.2s linear, border-top-color; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color 0.2s linear, border-top-color; vertical-align: baseline;">Click here</a> for more on FDA’s warning on Nigeria’s Nano Silver</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As the US FDA’s warning went viral, Nigerians erupted with outrage on social media as they mostly express the need for their country to protect lives of its citizenry after US declined giving out its’ Zimapp.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">One Joseph Anthony writes, “West made a lot of mistakes on the road to there so called “state of art medicines”. We had no opportunity to scrutinize Zmapp. Let’s take a bold step to try something. Nothing is as strong as a proof.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We may try it with rodents and watch out for cultured results or patterns and if we get the gut feeling to proceed based on the results the why not! Let’s ignore everyone. For once let’s look inward for solutions we are not toilet to receive processed products by others.” He ended</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Another commentator, who identifies self as Zuby expressed that when an African says he can cure AIDS or Ebola they tell him to shut up, say it’s impossible or not possible without testing it. He stressed that the drug should be offered to one person who already has Ebola and if it doesn’t work then we know for sure it’s doesn’t.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Abidemi Adekunle pleaded with America, saying they should be magnanimous enough to release the very drug that is working for them to other nations now that WHO has authorised the use of experimental drug.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“If its pesticide, we need it that’s all. How do we come about Ebola? In fact I guess they cultured the virus and send it to Africa because we rejected gay marriage. If you could remember that such has been done some years back against China through SARS” says one Anigbogu Okechukwu</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">From the FDA’s report, it was also revealed that Silver has been in use for centuries. FDA states that over the years, tiny silver particles known as nano-silver have controversially been incorporated into a variety of consumer products such as socks and bedding to help block odors caused by bacteria and mold over.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This is happening at a time doctors and nurses attending to victims of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, at Mainland Hospital, Lagos isolation centre, downed tools following allegation of negligence by concerned relatives and associates of the female medical doctor and health workers who contracted the EVD from the late Liberian-American, Patrick Sawyer.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Meanwhile Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, had pleaded with the health workers on the need to get back to during  a media briefing in Lagos, yesterday.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/ebola-nigerians-blasts-us-fda-for-calling-its-experimental-drug-pesticide/#sthash.5RoK2ulc.dpuf</span></div>

Ebola: Nigerians blast US FDA for calling its experimental drug, pesticide

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Fear grips Kuje residents over plan to designate hospital Ebola centre

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="single-post-thumb" style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Bala Mohammed" class="attachment-slider wp-post-image" data-cfsrc="http://thenationonlineng.net/new/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Bala-Mohammed.jpg" height="330" src="http://thenationonlineng.net/new/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Bala-Mohammed.jpg" style="border: 0px none; height: auto; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: 620px;" width="239" /></span></div> <div class="single-post-caption" style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Bala Mohammed</span></div> <div class="post-inner" style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 20px 0px;"> <h1 class="name post-title entry-title" itemprop="itemReviewed" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Thing" style="border: 0px none; font-weight: normal; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"> <span itemprop="name" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fear grips Kuje residents over plan to designate hospital Ebola centre</span></span></h1> <div class="post-meta" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 7px; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 5px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="post-meta-author" style="border: 0px none; display: inline-block; list-style: none; margin: 0px 8px 0px 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Posted by: <a href="http://thenationonlineng.net/new/author/rilwan/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" title="">Blessing Olaifa, Abuja</a></span> <span class="post-cats" style="border: 0px none; display: inline-block; list-style: none; margin: 0px 8px 0px 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">in <a href="http://thenationonlineng.net/new/category/news/" rel="category tag" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" title="View all posts in News">News</a></span> <span class="tie-date" style="border: 0px none; display: inline-block; list-style: none; margin: 0px 8px 0px 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">7 hours ago</span></span></div> <div class="clear" style="border: 0px none; clear: both; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"> </div> <div class="entry" style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"> <div class="pf-content" style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There was panic at the General Hospital, Kuje, Abuja yesterday, following a speculation that the hospital had been designated an Ebola isolation centre.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The speculation began when The Red Cross supplied medical aids to the hospital. Three vehicles, with the insignia of the Red Cross, ferried  the supplies.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Youths gathered around the hospital discussing their fear that the authorities of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) had designated the hospital as a centre for the treatment of the deadly disease.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hospital workers rushed out to re-park their vehicles outside the hospital premises for fear that the youths might go violent. There were reports the community was opposed to the idea of an EVD Isolation and Treatment Centre in the town.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But, the Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Dr Terbunde Egbi, dispelled the rumour that the equipment and drugs were for Ebola treatment.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dr.  Egbi, who received the officials of the Red Cross, said there was no need for panic as the materials and equipment delivered were not for Ebola.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She added that some of the materials were also meant for some Primary Health Care Centres within the area. She said there was no need for anyone to be apprehensive over the pronouncement of the government on the issue, adding that “as of now, no Ebola case has been reported in the FCT”.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dr Egbi told <em style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">The Nation </em>that since the pronouncement of the FCT Minister last weekend, there was only a sensitisation visit of all stakeholders to the hospital on Monday. According to her, the hospital workers were yet to be briefed properly as everything regarding the matter was yet at planning stage.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A nurse, who spoke with <em style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">The Nation</em> in confidence, said she had to quickly move her car out of the hospital premises when she overheard the youths saying they would mobilise others to register their protest against the use of the hospital as an Ebola Treatment Centre.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She said she could not take things for granted as the youths might start disrupting the smooth operations of the hospital.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sources, who spoke in confidence, were of the view that the hospital was not suitable for the treatment of Ebola as it is surrounded closely by residential buildings and a school.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A pharmacist said it would have been better for the government to use the Zuba Cottage Hospital for the Ebola Isolation Centre. He said since the Zuba hospital is more isolated and is yet to be put into use by the government, it would be better to engage it for the purpose of the Ebola Virus treatment.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Said the source: “For Ebola treatment to start here, it means you have to evacuate about 600 patients out of here. In addition, daily no fewer than 60 patients visit this hospital; so, where are you going to take them? It is unthinkable that the government will designate this hospital for Ebola because it is in the middle of people.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Look at residential buildings all around and a school behind the hospital; even at that are they going to engage the health personnel here for that purpose. Don’t forget if you recruit them for such assignment, they would not be allowed to have contact with people for 21 days. So, what happened to the health workers who come every day and are living in the midst of the people?”</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Speaking with <em style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">The Nation</em>, Mr Kafas Ibrahim, an indigene, said it was wrong for government to say that it would use the hospital for Ebola treatment, saying already people are apprehensive about the decision. He said the youths were prepared to stage demonstrations against the decision.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Isah Ahmed, another resident, said the FCT Minister and those who arrived at the decision were looking for trouble. He said it was an attempt to carryout experiment on the people of Kuje, stressing that he would not be surprised if the experiment back fired on the people in government.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Head of Department for Health at Kuje Council Area, Dr. Veronica Yama, said the local government authorities in conjunction with other stakeholders had only started sensitisation visits to settlements, towns and villages in the council.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dr Yama, who spoke on behalf of the council, said besides the sensitisation, every other thing regarding the matter was at a planning stage.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The traditional Ruler of Kuje, the Gomo of Kuje, could not be reached, but his Secretary, Mallam Abubakar told The Nation on phone that the palace was aware of government’s decision.</span></div> <div class="printfriendly pf-alignright" style="border: 0px none; 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