Liberian Ambassador Accused Of Patrick Sawyer Ebola Situation

First Consultants Medical Centre has accused the Liberian Ambassador to Nigeria, for his supposed participation in Nigeria’s first case of Ebola.

The hospital is accusing the ambassador of putting its staff under huge strain to discharge Patrick Sawyer, against the management’s wishes, according to Vanguard report.  They also said the ambassador threatened that if sawyer was not released, he would file a lawsuit against them.

Speaking on case, Medical Director of the hospital, Benjamin Ohiaeri, said:

“The Liberian Ambassador to Nigeria started to put pressure on us that Mr Sawyer had his fundamental human right that he wanted to leave the hospital and he should be allowed to leave .”

In other words, we have a provision within the law that allows the person to sign and leave the hospital. Meanwhile, there is a superior provision within that law which is that you can decline the patient for public good.”In order to protect ourselves as an institution, we called in our lawyer who drafted for us a resolution, stating that we were not going to let Sawyer out because it will not be in the public good to let him out.”

still on the case, Dr Ohiaeri said while the hassle was on, the management immediately conveyed a committee who concluded that although Sawyer has the right to sign against medical advice, they would not let him go for public good.  “Because we did not let him go, Mr. Sawyer unleashed his bio terror on the staff of the hospital. He knew he had the disease, he was angry to the extent that he released his blood to contaminate our people as they came in.

We lost four of our key staff who included, Dr. Adadevoh, she worked here for 21 years, Dr. Amos Abaniwo, our Chief consultant Anesthesiology and Director of clinical service, had been with us for 16 years.

Dr. Adadevoh died leaving the husband and a son, Dr. Abaniwo died leaving his wife and three kids, the third person that died was a nurse Ejeleonu, she just started working with us that day.

Unknown to us she was two months pregnant and she died with the pregnancy. The fourth person that died was nurse Evelyn Uko who had been working with us for the past 31 years. She was a widow, a single parent raising four children, she died living those children with us, multiple tragedy because the four children were kicked out of the home because of the stigma.”