People tagged a European author racist when he said its much more better to be a cow in europe than to be a human in africa..cuz he felt animals were treated with more dignity in foreign countries than we r treated in africa.I really couldnt agree more.it. The heart walahi.govt can't even do the one fin dat is their most impt responsibility which is to protect the lives of its citizenry.na wah

davno: USA, Canada, Japan, etc. These are countries without ebola yet they have experimental drugs for it.

Liberia, DRC and in fact the whole of Africa - ebola was discovered here but we have nothing for it. No vaccines, no research, no facilities and no conscience.

Life is tough on its own but life as a black man is really really pathetic.

englishmart: Damn! This is not right!
Why are the health workers running away when they are mostly needed?


This is the problem we face in this country. Nobody is willing to make sacrifices!

Shey the people that called the press conference are medical practitioners. Why don't they volunteer their services to the victims of this disease. I'm sure they would need any help they can get. The same goes for every other persons here who think enough isn't being done for the victims. Volunteer your services at the Ebola health centres today! I'm sure you services will be greatly appreciated. Sitting behind computer screens and being sympathetic will do those people no good.

Levelzguy: People tagged a European author racist when he said its much more better to be a cow in europe than to be a human in africa..cuz he felt animals were treated with more dignity in foreign countries than we r treated in africa.I really couldnt agree more.it. The heart walahi.govt can't even do the one fin dat is their most impt responsibility which is to protect the lives of its citizenry.na wah

Who is this govt you talk about? Is it the name of an animal, place or thing?

What is your contribution to the entity called Nigeria since the day you were born? What free community services have you done? Where have you volunteered to help out in skill you're good at without being paid, how have you as a person impacted the life's of the people around you?

Get yourself off your entitlement high horse. Those country that you compare with Nigeria have good people and this reflected in their government. Try becoming a better person, and maybe then you will be more than a cow in europe. Dunce!

Amya:

Thank you very much! This is just an avenue to seek for attention/favours from the govt by these hypocritical doctors. Even a kid knows these days that if you want support from the masses, just say the government is not working.

If it's not being managed well, how come it's still the 10 Ebola confirmed case as it is last week. How come they are still alive even though we know the speed at which it kills.

Nigerians use your head for once! Anything in print must not be the truth! Punch is trying to sell papers, but this is a very shoddy journalism as they didn't even bother to go check out the patients themselves. They relied on the hearsays of people who I'm sure didn't even go to the said hospital. They probably called a press conference to lament to seek attention for themselves as though they are the victims. What have the contributed as medical practitioners! If they care so much, why can't they volunteer their services to these people they claim they love so much.

We should stop being a blame trading people and know that the government we hate so much is just our reflection as a people. You can't plant corn and pepper would germinate.

Sister I believe you went to school, and you know a lot about journalism? What stop you from going there and bring your own version of the story.. Take pictures of the place then we will all believe the rubbish you wrote up there..
The problem with your ilks is that sentiment , hatred has beclouded your sense of judgement.
I pray and hope you and your family should never have a first hand experience of what is happening there..
Thank you

What Nigeria need now, is God intervention. Man can fail us, but God will never fail. Our prayer is that God should send someone that will stand us for Nigeria to fight this deadly disease.

My heart bleeds for these neglected fellows. Only if they had good relation with God, then will he remember them on that day. Because given what I've red here, sincerely speaking I don't see any miracle turning their deteriorating condition around. Jeez! I can never believe any single word coming from our govt officials, cos given what they say on air and what is really on ground, one will conclude that they don't have conscience. govt has set up this, drugs are being given, we are monitoring, this person has donated this, we are doing all our best, they are in stable condition, all these are lies they make up to make us believe they r doing something while little or nothing is being done apart from looting funds.

Any man or woman who is chopin d money for ebola victims. Let him die of ebola in jesus christ name we pray AMEN.

Amya:

Thank you very much! This is just an avenue to seek for attention/favours from the govt by these hypocritical doctors. Even a kid knows these days that if you want support from the masses, just say the government is not working.

If it's not being managed well, how come it's still the 10 Ebola confirmed case as it is last week. How come they are still alive even though we know the speed at which it kills.

Nigerians use your head for once! Anything in print must not be the truth! Punch is trying to sell papers, but this is a very shoddy journalism as they didn't even bother to go check out the patients themselves. They relied on the hearsays of people who I'm sure didn't even go to the said hospital. They probably called a press conference to lament to seek attention for themselves as though they are the victims. What have the contributed as medical practitioners! If they care so much, why can't they volunteer their services to these people they claim they love so much.

We should stop being a blame trading people and know that the government we hate so much is just our reflection as a people. You can't plant corn and pepper would germinate.

Someone close to me spoke with the late nurse Justina before she died. She was neglected at her critical stage. When she couldnt breathe,there was no oxygen support available for her. Unless you are an insider,you cant be too sure how this people are managed.

alkonami:
Sister I believe you went to school, and you know a lot about journalism? What stop you from going there and bring your own version of the story.. Take pictures of the place then we will all believe the rubbish you wrote up there..
The problem with your ilks is that sentiment , hatred has beclouded your sense of judgement.
I pray and hope you and your family should never have a first hand experience of what is happening there..
Thank you

Do you have brains at all? If you think you do, then put it to good use! A news was reported without verification, and I'm the shoddy journalist?
Actually, the fact is you're the person who sentiments and hatred has beclouded your sense of judgment!!! The typical dunce.

lakamua:
the problem is selfish noisemakers like you. are u too young to volunteer for training to assist in the ebola center?? or to assist in sambisa forest. u like ur life so much and think others dont.

your stupidity will not allow you see beyond this height.

Are you saying that a banker should abandon his/her trade and join medical fields just because of an ebola virus?
Or you expect a civil engineer to abandon his profession because of boko haram insurgency?

Those soldiers and doctors swore oaths to ensure security and good health to the maximum!
Bro, with all due respect,

Your brain needs some upgrading. The current version is expired.

Amhappy:

Someone close to me spoke with the late nurse Justina before she died. She was neglected at her critical stage. When she couldnt breathe,there was no oxygen support available for her. Unless you are an insider,you cant be too sure how this people are managed.

For all I know, we do not have a cure for Ebola disease. And come to think of it, the late nurse spoke to someone you know while she had no access to oxygen and couldn't breathe? while it's a treatment facility, it's not a miracle working facility.

IGBOSON1: When i tell you guys this is one fuc/ked up country we're living in, i'll be shouted down! I bet they've already scrambled for the money Dangote donated (with specific instructions that it's mainly for Lagos state) and pilfered the lot under some spurious 'miscellaneous expenses' heading!

In one way, you can't blame the medical personnel for running away (seeing how the ones infected are being left to their own fate); yet again, it's what they signed up for, and if they know they're not up to the task the decent thing to do would be to throw in the towel and resign, while demanding that the federal and state ministries of health give those poor souls the proper treatment they deserve!

I've always said it that Nigerian Doctors, Nurses and other medical personnel are mainly materialistic, greedy, arrogant and short-tempered little hitlers, and are in it just for the money......not for some noble desire to save human life and limit human suffering! When push comes to shove, that's when they're 'shown up' for who and what they really are! Of course there's always the few decent ones still out there.....but as i stressed, they're few, and far between!

If you believe it's only about the Doctors and health workers alone, then you're not conversant with the Nigerian society. In Nigeria, the measure of success is money. Almost everybody behave the way you described the health workers to behave. Even the guy in Aso Rock is not excluded. The fish is rotten everywhere. It's pretty difficult to find principled and ethical people in Nigeria. They have to maintain their "fake lives" of "I have arrived" , "I pass my neighbour" even if it's gonna be through fraud, loot, deceit... Small stealing is not corruption, it's smartness. Go figure!

it took multiples of airplane crash to expose how bad our aviation sector is. it took the escapades of boko haram to expose how bad our so-called military is and now, Ebola is showing us how bad our medical sector is and is getting worse.

Amya:

For all I know, we do not have a cure for Ebola disease.

Of course there is no cure but its all about preserving the human dignity till the end. And few lucky ones will recover in the process.

Amhappy: Of course there is no cure but its all about preserving the human dignity till the end. And few lucky ones will recover in the process.

what you're saying in essence is that the oxygen would have cured her?

Ranting on social media will not CHANGE this situation. What are we going to do? Type all day We can brainstorm, come up with a strategy and either hit the streets or get help somewhere, somehow. Let's do something, pls. We are NOT safe.

thewarrior72: But lagos state minister of health come out to lie to lagosian that the health conditions of those in quarantine are improving, meanwhile there are been neglected & abandon to their fath. If our gov cannot get right by managing & taking care of this few cases, what will be the faith of the masses when it deteriorate to the level of Liberia or guinea?

Jehovah we dey ur hand

MY DEAR BRO, now you see why UN said that millions of Nigerians will die? because they saw that we as a people are not organized , our government is useless, its a foreign doctor that was paying for these people's treatment? not Obama, or the British prime minister but a regular dude who isn't a Nigerian? and yet we have billionaires who can quickly single handedly create a rapid response team in conjunction with a foreign diagnostics specialist and within 2 weeks this crisis would have been over

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olimeh13: Nigerians. Make una came down

Evidence of the declining rate of commentators on Nairaland.

Corruption is a bane on the progress of our country. A situation where people divert public funds to private pockets in the daylight and nothing happens.
Please, whoever is holding the $12m Ebola intervention fund should release it. This is about the lives of innocent citizens and if this outbreak is not quelled on time nobody knows where next the wind blows to. It could happen to anybody, including you.

Now am not going to say we know exactly how they are being cared for but here are some facts

1. Treating ebola patients is not all about money. Nigerian health care professionals are afraid, this disease does not need advanced medical set up. What is lacking the most is compassion, as for those complaining they should don their biohazard suit and go to work.

2. How many Nigerian organizations and all the individuals complaining on this thread have donated even hand glove to help fight the cause if we think the money has not been getting to the patients. There is a problem in this country with sharing money and we all have the herd mentality that money has to be shared for anything to be effective damn you Nigerians.

3. For all those whining how about you do something for once !
I. Buy a protection suit take it there yourself and donate it that's a sample below

http://www.amazon.com/Kimberly-Clark-KleenGuard-Microporous-Bloodborne-Protection/dp/B0085XU8MO/ref=as_sl_pc_ss_til?tag=uf099-20&linkCode=w01&linkId=JBRG6DKWFKMKTHM7&creativeASIN=B0085XU8MO
I I. Buy rain boots hand gloves and go there to give them yourself.

Iii. Just do something!

Our government can be so heartless A̶̲̅πϑ wicked,they forget dat anybody can contract ebola.God pls we need divine intervention.

Chai...

The solution is simple, take the emmergency response away completely from the govt hands because some clowns in govt will always sabotage it.

I prefer foreign org,but a serious NGO needs to stand up now and set their own sys... Accomodation for staff,feeding,transp sys,drugs,med supplies,isolation tents etc its not cheap and we'll have to donate to it

Truth is for every epidemic threshold crossed in naija recorded in the last 10yrs,it took foreign intervention,msf esp to bring it down,meningitis,cholera,lead poisoning etc...

They used mostly local med staff with few foreiners cordinating....

To stop this plague,take it away from the govt,they should give the funds to an org not the ussual naija govt offices.

That said containing this thing isn't cheap @ all,bio hazard suits 20,000 non reusable.serious donations will be needed from all coporate bodies too.

They say u know how civilized a society is by how they treat those that are disables,those that are helpless.

GodMode:

The creator won't create a cure for your problems.. U'll have to use the brain given to you for that.

Go and read Isaiah 45:7

There is no God.

the fool has said in his heart, "there is no God" psalm 14

for the invincible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Roman 1vs20

if u don't believe in God, then ur existence is by accident

God have cure to all disesase:

and said, if thou with diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God & will do that which is right in his sight. & will give ear to his commandments & keep all his status. I will put non of these disease upon thee......, exodus 15: 26

and the Lord will take away 4rm thee all sickness......... Deuteronomy 7:15

then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, & he saved them out of their distress. He sent his world and healed them....... Psalm 107:19-20

he healed the broken in heart and bind up their wound. psalm 147:3
surly he hath borne our grief and carry our sorrow; yet we did esteem him stricken smitten of God and afflicted, but he was wounded by our transgression, he was bruised 4 our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him and by his trip we are healed. Isaiah 53: 5-5

this Ebola is not for the children of God, it is for the people of Pharaoh and unbelievers like you.

Believe in him or die

Its not the first and it won't be the last case of government inefficiency, incompetence and corruption. We all whin and make noise and insult every government official online, and then and then days go by and everyone forgets. whinning and cursing on nairalamd wont't reduce corruption and make our government officials more accountable.

It is sad that even in the case of infectious disease outbreak as dangerous as Ebola, Nigerians and the authorities still allows their Barbaric minds to overtake them. What is happening to the funds release for the fight of this outbreak. Whoever is involve in this wickedness, should know that Ebola will not respect his/her position or amount of money they have. If they love themselves they should release that money immediately.

Nigeria is a country built on faulty foundation. We breath the air of corruption. As deadly as EVD is, we still play politics with it. Until we the common citizens start dying like flies and EVD is out of control then govt officials will be serious. We are just too money conscious in this country. What use is money when we are sick and dying? Imagine a doctor wasting in IDH and no one is concerned? I don't blame the other doctors that are avoiding the EVD victims. Nigeria is a sorry nation.

fidrach: Naija na only una waka come? Wey the huge sum of money FG said they disbursed for treatment of ebola victim abi na for pages of newspaper that one dey happen? All these embezzlement of public funds and corruption in high and low places on our land, chai chai chai there is God oooo...

We are all part of our problem. We are naturally too possesive, as Africans. If I tell myself that I am not corrupt as those in power, but I can fight over little acquisitions like land, money, woman and even pride, how am I even sure that I won't embezzle public fund when in position?
Jesus said that whoever is with us is not against us. Moreso, if we can't talk to our representatives we can approach, but show royallity on their mischieves instead, we are all part of the problems then!
It's not an easy venture. But we can't clean the outside while the inside is in ruin. Taking to the street (protest) may not solve our problem absolutely - because of who is that totally corrupt free one that can bell the cat - though it would go a very long way towards solution.

Election is around the corner so these people wouldn't like to spend even when everybody is aware ebola is deadly..smh

Yeah! I will keep on saying it, A country were a zoologist with no political science nor law degree govern...I rest my case.

My question is where are those Pastors who claim to be miraculous healers deceiving Nigerians and feeding fat from the gullibility of the masses?.
This Ebola case has absolutely prove that they are liars, impostors and peddlers of the word.