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How I survived Ebola after contact with Patrick Sawyer – Dr. Ada Igonoh

Dr Ada Igonoh

This is the amazing story of Dr.Ada Igonoh, of First Consultants Hospital, Lagos. She was one of the health workers who came in contact with Liberian, Patrick Sawyer and she has lived to tell her story. Please read, her story brought me to tears Speaking with NaijaVibe she said: When ...

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Patrick Sawyer’s widow apologises to Nigerians, regrets Dr Adadevoh’s death

Widow of the late Liberian, Patrick Sawyer, the man who brought the deadly Ebola disease to Nigeria, Mrs. Decontee Sawyer, yesterday said that she shared the pains of the family of Dr Ameyo Stella Adedavoh, the female doctor who attended to Sawyer. �I share the pains that the family members ...

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#Ebola ;Dr Adadevoh should be given a national award – Stella Damasus speaks

Actress and human activist Stella Damasus thinks otherwise.”Kind and beautiful Dr Ameyo Adadevoh stood her ground to protect Nigeria. She refused to allow me sawyer leave first consultants hospital even when the Liberian ambassador pressured her to release him. Imagine what would have happened if she had let him go. ...

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‘Heroic’ Doctor who died trying to save Patrick Sawyer was Herbert Macaulay’s great grand daughter

Dr. Adadevoh was infected when she forcefully restricted Mr. Sawyer to his bed after he tried to remove the drip administered on him. Observers said, yesterday, that her action probably saved many Nigerian lives because, if Sawyer had succeeded in forcing himself out of the hospital, it would have been ...

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Ebola: Deceased Nigerian nurse met Sawyer on her first day at work – Sister

On the 14th of August, 25 year old Justina Obioma Ejelonu, a nurse who came in contact with the late Patrick Sawyer,died of Ebola. Her sister spoke to Punch �The day she met the infected Liberian was her first day at work at that hospital. She just got that job. ...

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I Do not owe you any explanation – Minister who approved Patrick Sawyer’s trip

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Liberia’s deputy finance minister, Sebastian Muah Omar, has been criticised for approving Patrick Sawyer’s trip to Nigeria,despite health officials placing him on Ebola danger list . In a heated conversation on Facebook as tracked by ‘concerned Liberians.org’ ,Omar defended his action harshly . This happened when the news just came ...

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Ebola: Another nurse who had contact with Sawyer dies

25year old Justina Obi Ejelonu, who attended to late Liberian Patrick Sawyer while he was ill at the First Consultant hospital in Lagos, has died. According to Sahara reporters, her relatives called to inform them of her demise in the early hours of today. Ms. Ejelonu had been kept in ...

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My husband came to Nigeria for better treatment – Patrick Sawyer’s wife

Mrs Decontee Sawyerr, widow of Late Patrick Sawyerr, the Liberian man who came into Nigeria with the deadly Ebola virus, has said her sick husband risked all to come to Nigeria because he believed so much in the health system here & wanted to be properly diagnosed and treated. She ...

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Ebola: Nigerian nurse escapes quarantine centre to Enugu

One of the nurses who had previously had contact with the Liberian Ebola patient Patrick Sawyer, fled her quarantine center in Lagos and returned to her home in Enugu, exposing about 20 people who she came in contact with to the deadly virus. Information Minister Labaran Makuwho disclosed this said ...

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Another man dies of Ebola in Nigeria

Nigeria has recorded another death from� virus in Nigeria. The first two being Sawyerr and a Nigerian nurse. Find the full text of the ECOWAS statement after the cut… “The ECOWAS Commission announces with deep regret the passing of a staff member of its Lagos Liaison Office, Mr. Jatto Asihu ...

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Patrick Sawyer ignored medical advice – Liberian Govt apologises to Nigerians

The Liberian Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Nurudeem Mohammed,told journalists in Abuja “The Liberian President President has personally called to apologise on the unfortunate development.She specifically said her country had declared a state of emergency over the Ebola epidermic in Liberia.‘She equally apologised that Sawyer ignored medical advice ...

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Revealed : Patrick Sawyer Urinated On Health Workers Before His Death

The death of Liberian Ebola victim, Patrick Sawyer in a Lagos hospital,has opened up a floodgate of Ebola cases as it’s been revealed he came in contact with about 70 people directly or indirectly. One of the Nigerian nurses who attended him died on Tuesday and others are still in ...

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Nigeria Doctor who treated Liberian Man dies, two medical personnel down with Ebola

The Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu who spoke to newsmen today, announced that the female doctor who treated Late Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian has died. Chukwu further disclosed that the second doctor and the nurse who managed him already have full-blown cases of the Ebola virus. More details shortly!

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Nigerian doctor who treated Liberian man tests positive to Ebola virus

One of the doctors who attended to Ebola victim in Lagos has contracted the virus. A Liberian man, Patrick Sawyer, was the first Ebola case in Nigeria after travelling into lagos from Liberia already infected with the deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). The �minister of health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, confirmed ...

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Liberian Man, Patrick Sawyer, with first Ebola case in Nigeria is dead | Photo

Mr. Patrick Sawyer, a WASH consultant at the Ministry of Finance, who had been quarantined since arriving Lagos, Nigeria on Sunday, July 20, 2014 with symptoms of the Ebola virus has died. A Liberian government official, speaking on condition of anonymity said the news of Sawyer’s death was relayed to ...

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