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Ebola: Why Patrick Sawyer Travelled To Nigeria – Wife by Prodigy246(m): 6:57pm On Aug 13, 2014 |
The widow of late Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian who brought Ebola into Nigeria, has defended her husband’s decision to travel to Africa’s most populous country, saying he did so in desperate search for a country with better healthcare system than his own country. In an article published earlier today, TMZ Liberia Magazine http:// www.mytmzliberia.net/) quoted Decontee Sawyer, who is a radio host in New York, as explaining that Mr. Sawyer had no trust in the healthcare system in Liberia and had possibly headed to Nigeria with the hope of receiving better treatment for his ailment. Mrs. Sawyer shared her thoughts on her Facebook profile from which TMZ Liberia sourced it for publication. “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. “I knew Patrick better than anybody else (including himself). 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. “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 has expressed to me many times in the past that he felt passionately about helping to be a part of strengthening Liberia’s healthcare system, but 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 his to end. So, I bet anything that he was thinking, if I could only get to Nigeria, a way more developed country than Liberia, I would be able to get some help. How ironic.” In her post, Mrs. Sawyer wrote that the fact that her husband avoided contact with others at the James Sprigg Payne’s Airport in Monrovia as revealed by airport CCTV footage proved he didn’t set out to infect others with the disease and perhaps his actions were that of a dying man in desperate search for help. “It has been reported that Patrick avoided physical contact with everyone he came across during his trip from Liberia to Nigeria. When he got to Nigeria, he turned himself in letting them know that he had just flown in from Liberia. “Patrick went to Nigeria for help so that he can get properly diagnosed, and not misdiagnosed in Liberia. And if it came back that he did have Ebola, he trusted the Nigerian healthcare system a lot more than he trusted the Liberian’s. His action, as off as it was, was a desperate plea for help. Patrick didn’t want to die, and he thought his life would be saved in Nigeria.” Mrs. Sawyer then took a swipe at the Liberian President, Ellen Johnson- Sirleaf, who said Mr Sawyer was indiscipline and disrespectful for failing to heed medical advise not to travel. Mrs Sawyer said if President Johnson- Sirleaf had fixed the healthcare system in Liberia, her husband would not have left in search of treatment elsewhere. “I write today, not simply because of Patrick, but because of the broken healthcare system in the Liberia, and the government’s inability under President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (and other past Presidents) to fix it. Good doctors, nurses, and other healthcare providers aren’t given the support they need to save lives. “President Sirleaf went on CNN News throwing stones at Patrick, a man who can no longer defend himself, a man who worked tirelessly for Liberia. She should be ashamed of herself. I use to admire this woman, and was excited and proud of her accomplishment as the first woman President in the entire continent of Africa. She will always own that. We will always own that. It can’t be taken away from her. It’s something to be proud of. But this woman has failed her country,” she wrote. Nigeria was free of Ebola until July 20 when Mr. Sawyer arrived. He became terribly ill on his flight and was rushed to the First Consultant Hospital Obalende, Lagos, where he died on July 24. Nigeria’s Health Minister, Onyebuchi Chukwu, said on Monday that although the Liberian government has apologized for the incidence, it was pertinent to note that Nigeria was free of Ebola Virus until its importation by the Liberian- American. Mr. Sawyer’s action, he said, has placed unnecessary stress on Nigeria’s health system. Since Mr. Sawyer’s death in a Lagos hospital, two other persons who had contact with him have died of the virus. At least eight others have also tested positive to the infection and have been quarantined at a Lagos hospital. President Goodluck Jonathan has since declared a national emergency on the disease while the federal health ministry in conjunction with health ministries in the 36 states are working to prevent the spread of the virus, which has killed over 1,000 people in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Source: https://m.premiumtimesng.com/news/166660-ebola-why-patrick-sawyer-travelled-to-nigeria-wife.html |
Re: Ebola: Why Patrick Sawyer Travelled To Nigeria – Wife by Prodigy246(m): 6:58pm On Aug 13, 2014 |
Patrick Sawyer's widow.
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Re: Ebola: Why Patrick Sawyer Travelled To Nigeria – Wife by Genea(f): 7:04pm On Aug 13, 2014 |
Even d hopeless look on nigeria as a dier only hope |
Re: Ebola: Why Patrick Sawyer Travelled To Nigeria – Wife by baybiemee: 7:09pm On Aug 13, 2014 |
Oh God!!! |
Re: Ebola: Why Patrick Sawyer Travelled To Nigeria – Wife by baby124: 7:12pm On Aug 13, 2014 |
Is Nigeria not the same as Liberia in terms of health care? Was he not American? Why did he not travel to America. Rubbish. She is talking because the man did not want to kill his own family. Instead he came to Nigeria, knowing he would die and had the terrible dissease. Obviously came to spread it, considering he was an American citizen and could get better care in America. He caused the loss of lives of other people's bread winners so that his own family can be safe. How selfish and wicked. All he needed to do was call the American embassy, and all this stories that touch would not have been our problem in Nigeria 4 Likes |
Re: Ebola: Why Patrick Sawyer Travelled To Nigeria – Wife by seankafor(m): 7:33pm On Aug 13, 2014 |
i think only the man knows why he came to nigeria...his wife just want to calm nigerians down with his sweet words. 2 Likes |
Re: Ebola: Why Patrick Sawyer Travelled To Nigeria – Wife by stunning4real: 8:20pm On Aug 13, 2014 |
Nonsense stories. Why didn't he go to America instead of coming to Nigeria, if he doesn't have d intention of spreading it, why did he became violent @ d hospital. God wil judge him. 2 Likes |
Re: Ebola: Why Patrick Sawyer Travelled To Nigeria – Wife by Afrok(m): 8:52pm On Aug 13, 2014 |
Haha... This is serious and interesting, how can a blind man look up to his fellow blind man when crossing the road? They'll both be crushed by the incoming vehicle(s). That's just the situation btw Patrick Sawyer (Liberia) and Nigeria, we're both blind to see and prepare for Ebola, so it's presently crushing us (Africa). 1 Like |
Re: Ebola: Why Patrick Sawyer Travelled To Nigeria – Wife by leksgcfr(m): 8:55pm On Aug 13, 2014 |
Yet the late Pat had no justifiable cause to come here. He could have warned the medics and the innocent souls that came in contact with him not to move near him. He didn't do that. I didnt want to agree with GEJ before but having read the defence of his wife, I wilfully break that African adage that you dont speak ill of the dead. Pat, you were wicked! 1 Like |
Re: Ebola: Why Patrick Sawyer Travelled To Nigeria – Wife by phreakabit(m): 9:17pm On Aug 13, 2014 |
Better healthcare? She he no see South Africa or USA in? He was an American after all. 1 Like |
Re: Ebola: Why Patrick Sawyer Travelled To Nigeria – Wife by kemiola89(f): 9:18pm On Aug 13, 2014 |
I'm sure those health officials that tended to him woulda been more careful if he had told them he was having Ebola virus. Things wouldn't have taken this turn. 1 Like |
Re: Ebola: Why Patrick Sawyer Travelled To Nigeria – Wife by AGgal(f): 9:21pm On Aug 13, 2014 |
Oh please!!!!!!! Mrs Sawyer,spare us the c.ock and bull stories. What stopped your evil husband from informing his care givers that he was infected with Ebola virus? And why didn't he avoid physical contact when he arrived Nigeria the way he did in his country? Nonsense! |
Re: Ebola: Why Patrick Sawyer Travelled To Nigeria – Wife by Prodigy246(m): 9:00am On Aug 14, 2014 |
AGgal: Oh please!!!!!!! Mrs Sawyer,spare us the c.ock and bull stories. What stopped your evil husband from informing his care givers that he was infected with Ebola virus? That's the that keeps running through my mind. |
Re: Ebola: Why Patrick Sawyer Travelled To Nigeria – Wife by Prodigy246(m): 9:00am On Aug 14, 2014 |
AGgal: Oh please!!!!!!! Mrs Sawyer,spare us the c.ock and bull stories. What stopped your evil husband from informing his care givers that he was infected with Ebola virus? That's the question that keeps running through my mind. |
Re: Ebola: Why Patrick Sawyer Travelled To Nigeria – Wife by kazeem1086(m): 11:47am On Aug 14, 2014 |
this woman is crazy wit dis nonsense story she is telng us So its nig dat has gud medical facilities dat cn hlp his conditn God wil judge him accordngly |
Re: Ebola: Why Patrick Sawyer Travelled To Nigeria – Wife by kazeem1086(m): 11:54am On Aug 14, 2014 |
i think dis patrick's action is delibrate and conspiracy! 1 Like |
Re: Ebola: Why Patrick Sawyer Travelled To Nigeria – Wife by kazeem1086(m): 12:01pm On Aug 14, 2014 |
let patrick sawyer's wife come to nig and tell the family of afected people dis nonsense story its then she wil knw what her husband has done to nigerian. Let her jst come down to nigeria and see 1 Like |
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