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Ebola Patients Abandoned, Health Team Down Tools by Leopantro: 5:07am On Aug 18, 2014
Several doctors, nurses and other health workers who walked away from an Ebola treatment center, Yaba, Lagos, Friday has said that they quit because of what they described as the lack-luster attitude of the country’s health officials to the plight of Ebola patients sequestered at the Center for Infectious Disease Control in Yaba

According to reports from SaharaReporters members of medical teams sent to Nigeria by the World Health Organization and Doctors Without Borders had become so frustrated by the Federal government’s inept response to the Ebola outbreak that they are also threatening to quit, unless the government’s attitude changes dramatically.

It was also gathered that before Ebola patients were moved three days ago to a better facility next door, they were housed in a dilapidated and abandoned building at the center.

According to the health workers, it took complaints by families of the victims of Ebola to reporters to force the hands of the government to move the patients to a cleaner, more humane facility.

A source who spoke with the publication said the former facility where patients had been kept had no functioning water supply and no air-conditioning.

“The families of patients had to cater for them and pay for some drugs and oxygen, even though the Nigerian government claimed to have released more than N1.9 billion for treatment of Ebola victims,” one doctor alleged.

While other insiders confirmed that there were now seven cases of Ebola patients at the facility with one victim discharged yesterday after fully recovering from the disease. They added that three of the patients were also showing steady improvement while three were still struggling.

One of the volunteers who quit on Friiday said the Nigerian government had done little or nothing to cater for consultants and volunteers who were battling the deadly virus. “These consultants and volunteers were not housed, they were not fed, and they were not provided with transportation to enable them to continue working on site,” said a doctor.

The medical source added, “Because of the level of exposure of volunteers and physicians managing Ebola patients, they ought to be housed near the facility and moved around in a special vehicle to and from the center.” But the doctors often return home to their families and had to disinfect their homes on their own.
he sources revealed that only seven Nigerian doctors were on ground at the center as opposed to 20 needed to take on the challenge of treating and managing Ebola. The Nigerian doctors and nurses are being led and trained by an eight-member team of physicians from the World Health Organization (WHO) and Doctors Without Borders.

Our sources said the expatriate medical experts were also threatening to leave, citing the Nigerian government’s failure to recognize the seriousness of the Ebola disease. For example, Nigeria’s Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, had not come near the any of the Ebola victims or given adequate assistance to the medical teams battling the deadly virus.

Instead, the minister struck a deal to accept Nano Silver solutions to treat Ebola from a yet to be named “Diaspora Nigerian” who the minister claims “invented” Nano Silver.

The US Food and Drugs Administration has stated that the Nano Silver solution being paraded in Nigeria as a cure for Ebola is classified as a pesticide.

The minister in Lagos yesterday said Nigeria has now abandoned the use of Nano Silver donated by the unnamed Nigeria because an independent assessment shows Nano Silver can’t treat Ebola.

One irate volunteer told SaharaReporters that the minister’s acceptance of an untested drug and his nomination of a notorious former INEC chairman, Maurice Iwu to a committee to cure Ebola was baffling. “The solutions could not have been accepted and used to treat Ebola patients in Yaba because the WHO has also directed that [the Nano Silver ] are unsafe for treating Ebola, but I am not surprised about the minister’s behavior considering that he nominated Prof. Iwu, a serial lier who earlier claimed bitter cola could cure Ebola” said the medical volunteer.

The source said doctors at the center were currently treating patients to combat high fevers. “We’re also rehydrating the patients and managing other symptoms as they present themselves,” the source said.

On the prospect of containing the spread of the virus in Nigeria, one of the consultants said Nigerians should realize that they are on their own. “Health authorities in Nigeria are not doing much to help anyone beyond propaganda,” he said in an angry tone.

The source disclosed that the Lagos State Commissioner of Health came near the treatment center yesterday. “He stood far away from the center where patients are being treated. He ran back and quickly went on air to claim that he had visited the victims, a claim that was a blatant lie,” our source said.

http://www.today.ng/news/fg-hasnt-given-priority-to-ebola-treatment-international-consultants-threaten-to-walk-away/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fg-hasnt-given-priority-to-ebola-treatment-international-consultants-threaten-to-walk-away

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Re: Ebola Patients Abandoned, Health Team Down Tools by desy24444(m): 6:19am On Aug 18, 2014
Wic way nigeria?
Re: Ebola Patients Abandoned, Health Team Down Tools by mymadam(m): 7:32am On Aug 18, 2014
Leopantro:
...On the prospect of containing the spread of the virus in Nigeria, one of the consultants said Nigerians should realize that they are on their own. “Health authorities in Nigeria are not doing much to help anyone beyond propaganda,” he said in an angry tone...

God bless Nigeria.

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Re: Ebola Patients Abandoned, Health Team Down Tools by 5minsmadness: 8:53am On Aug 18, 2014
I was informed by a friend that the place they are housing them is terrible! No light, they have to use gen and the rooms are very hot. Also they pay for thier own drugs! And our leaders are busy snapping photo with hand sanitizers that is even antibacterial not antiviral?

Where is the N1.9BILLION President Johnathan donated?

Where is the N150million Dangote donated to fight the Ebola?

Even the foreign doctors there are threatening to leave.


And this same President just sacked 16,000 doctors??

[size=18pt]Nigerians are you still asleep??[/size]

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Re: Ebola Patients Abandoned, Health Team Down Tools by phantom(m): 8:56am On Aug 18, 2014
stop calling Nigerians. they are invalids.

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Re: Ebola Patients Abandoned, Health Team Down Tools by mez(m): 9:21am On Aug 18, 2014
phantom: stop calling Nigerians. they are invalids.

Lol! The scenario between Nigerians and doctors is like that of Jesus and the Jews before Pilate. Nothing more needs to be said as we all know the story.
Now, as much as many doctors have sworn not to offer free services anymore, they simply can't. The amount of compassion integrated in us during our training is our bane. We'll sooner or later forgive them, for they know not what they do.

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Re: Ebola Patients Abandoned, Health Team Down Tools by dakotchic(f): 9:26am On Aug 18, 2014
Lol! I think we are masochists in Nigeria.
Re: Ebola Patients Abandoned, Health Team Down Tools by phantom(m): 9:30am On Aug 18, 2014
grin...... confused leaders. I dey wonder say the international doctors get mind to come volunteer o!
but even dem don see wetin pass them.

where is the 1.9billion naira? where's dangotes 150million naira?

God please deliver your people!
Re: Ebola Patients Abandoned, Health Team Down Tools by nora544: 12:38pm On Aug 18, 2014
so you see who come and who helps

Doctors with out border and WHO

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Re: Ebola Patients Abandoned, Health Team Down Tools by Bishiie(m): 1:58pm On Aug 18, 2014
Must everything be politicise?
Re: Ebola Patients Abandoned, Health Team Down Tools by Onegai(f): 2:14pm On Aug 18, 2014
Mods, can we move this to the front page? Or is this too real and honest for us to handle? We are on our own, we need to protect ourselves. Let everyone know the truth.

Why are you all shocked? Why are you shocked at our governments? We told you FG shared the $8.1mil amongst themselves and gave Lagos 20 PPE suits and took 1,000 for their protection to Abuja, we told you LASG inflated the price of each isolation tent to N20mil and nothing was provided for doctors to wear to protect themselves. You guys refused to believe that and kept insulting doctors and foreign workers. Now the families are saying the same thing. Your FG and LASG are playing politics and pandering to the masses and doing absolutely nothing, but you are calling on Jesus and saying America is out to get you. Other countries are stylishly closing their borders to Nigeria. Read the book of Jeremiah, Nigeria is Israel and Judah, willingly deaf and dumb and are looking for easy cheap miracles when hard work and harder questions at the people we gave a job to lead us is demanded.

Don't worry, most of them are sending their families out for "holiday".

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Re: Ebola Patients Abandoned, Health Team Down Tools by Nobody: 2:25pm On Aug 18, 2014
Onegai: Mods, can we move this to the front page? Or is this too real and honest for us to handle? We are on our own, we need to protect ourselves. Let everyone know the truth.

Why are you all shocked? Why are you shocked at our governments? We told you FG shared the $8.1mil amongst themselves and gave Lagos 20 PPE suits and took 1,000 for their protection to Abuja, we told you LASG inflated the price of each isolation tent to N20mil and nothing was provided for doctors to wear to protect themselves. You guys refused to believe that and kept insulting doctors and foreign workers. Now the families are saying the same thing. Your FG and LASG are playing politics and pandering to the masses and doing absolutely nothing, but you are calling on Jesus and saying America is out to get you. Other countries are stylishly closing their borders to Nigeria. Read the book of Jeremiah, Nigeria is Israel and Judah, willingly deaf and dumb and are looking for easy cheap miracles when hard work and harder questions at the people we gave a job to lead us is demanded.

Don't worry, most of them are sending their families out for "holiday".

The Health mod is playing games. Always promoting ignorance, lies, and rubbish.

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Re: Ebola Patients Abandoned, Health Team Down Tools by phantom(m): 2:38pm On Aug 18, 2014
dont bother yourself onegai. as long as your topic does not have salt-water in its title,your hope for frontpage is very very slim. grin grin grin

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Re: Ebola Patients Abandoned, Health Team Down Tools by phantom(m): 4:42pm On Aug 18, 2014
Below is the breakdown of the monthly earnings of a Nigerian senator:NOTE: ALL ARE IN NAIRA
Basic Salary – 2,484 245.50
Hardship Allowance (50% of B.S) – 1 242 122.70
Consistuency allowance (200% of B.S) – 4 968 509.00
Furniture Allowance (300% of B.S) – 7 452 736.50
Newspapers Allowance (50% of B.S) – 1 242 122.70
Wardrobe Allowance (25% of B.S) – 621 061.37
Recess Allowance (10% of B.S) – 248 424.55
Accommodation (200% of B.S) – 4 968 509.00
Utilities (30% of B.S) – 828 081.83
Domestic Staff (75% of B.S) – 1 863 184.12
Entertainment (30% of B.S) – 828 081.83
Personal Assistance (25% of B.S) – 621 061.37
Vehicle Maintainance Allowance (75% of B.S) – 1 863 184.12
Leave Allowance (10% of B.S) – 248 424.55
Severance grautity (300% of B.S) – 7 452 736.50
Motor Vehicle Allowance (400% of B.S) – 9 936 982.00 – Every Four YearsSenators’ salary per month – N 2 456 647.7
Total = N 29 479 749 * 109 Senators
Grand Total = N 3 264 329 264.10
[b]The breakdown above does not include: the quaterly unaccountable constituency allowances (35million for each house of rep. member. 48 million for each sen.), their individual convoy of tinted bulletproofs dozens of brandnew Jeeps, some unnamed backyard moneys, some big and fat handy envelops nor does it include ‘never to be known by the public’ moneys not to talk of embezzlement and bribery etc.From the breakdown one will immediately understand the reason why our politics is christianed ‘DO OR DIE AFFAIR’ for the money seems enough for any insane senator, as it seems we have, to want to end his opponent breath at election. No wonder the senate president has turned his public post into a life affair stuff. No wonder senatorial and representative sits have turned hereditarial in nature for after the said 2 terms the sit should be left for relatives or children. No wonder we kept having boxers and wrestlers in N.A instead of them representing the nation in several weight titles and championships. No wonder ‘serving’ the people is a must .
All a doctor is asking for is #100 000 monthly Hazard not hardship allowance & this appears "TOO MUCH" for Jonathan/Onyebuchi.[/b]

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Re: Ebola Patients Abandoned, Health Team Down Tools by Nobody: 4:51pm On Aug 18, 2014
phantom: dont bother yourself onegai. as long as your topic does not have salt-water in its title,your hope for frontpage is very very slim. grin grin grin

Alternatively, it has to have the words "Nigerian Ebola Drug" or "Nigerian NanoSilver" or "Pesky Americans"

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Re: Ebola Patients Abandoned, Health Team Down Tools by phantom(m): 5:04pm On Aug 18, 2014
MissMeiya:

Alternatively, it has to have the words "Nigerian Ebola Drug" or "Nigerian NanoSilver" or "Pesky Americans"
grin

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Re: Ebola Patients Abandoned, Health Team Down Tools by nora544: 5:12pm On Aug 18, 2014
that is very much!

What a senator get in your country and what makes a senator, can you explain it because a member of the parliament in my country gets about 8 000 euro what is about 11 000 USD but he has to pay tax and my country belong to the 20 richest in the world.

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Re: Ebola Patients Abandoned, Health Team Down Tools by Nobody: 5:14pm On Aug 18, 2014
Onegai: Mods, can we move this to the front page? Or is this too real and honest for us to handle? We are on our own, we need to protect ourselves. Let everyone know the truth.

Why are you all shocked? Why are you shocked at our governments? We told you FG shared the $8.1mil amongst themselves and gave Lagos 20 PPE suits and took 1,000 for their protection to Abuja, we told you LASG inflated the price of each isolation tent to N20mil and nothing was provided for doctors to wear to protect themselves. You guys refused to believe that and kept insulting doctors and foreign workers. Now the families are saying the same thing. Your FG and LASG are playing politics and pandering to the masses and doing absolutely nothing, but you are calling on Jesus and saying America is out to get you. Other countries are stylishly closing their borders to Nigeria. Read the book of Jeremiah, Nigeria is Israel and Judah, willingly deaf and dumb and are looking for easy cheap miracles when hard work and harder questions at the people we gave a job to lead us is demanded.

Don't worry, most of them are sending their families out for "holiday".


This shoe is too big for Chukwu, let him just step out of it! He is calling for volunteer doctors when he and his ogas at the top are not ready to make things work. It's almost as if they find the whole ish funny with the way they just go about smiling and taking pictures like a bunch of excited kids. They are so confident that ebola will only affect the lowly Nigerians and not them!

I know some people will still come out and defend them, so sad.

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Re: Ebola Patients Abandoned, Health Team Down Tools by phantom(m): 5:55pm On Aug 18, 2014
nora544: that is very much!

What a senator get in your country and what makes a senator, can you explain it because a member of the parliament in my country gets about 8 000 euro what is about 11 000 USD but he has to pay tax and my country belong to the 20 richest in the world.

what country are you from
you can see the animals that are our parliament members in nigeria.

converting what nigerian senators earn into dollars is approximately $200,000/month. that is about obamas annual salary or the annual salary of an OBGYN consultant(attending physician)in the US.
is that not mad shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked angry angry angry angry

a nigerian senator earns about 1,000,000 naira or $6,000/day

*****okay so i double checked POTUS' annual salary and it was raised in 2001 from 200 thousand dollars to 400 thousand dollars,so our senators earn obamas salary in 2 months of just sitting on their a***s all day long.

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Re: Ebola Patients Abandoned, Health Team Down Tools by Nobody: 5:59pm On Aug 18, 2014
phantom:

you can see the animals that are our parliament members in nigeria.

converting what nigerian senators earn into dollars is approximately $200,000/month. is that not mad shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked angry angry angry angry

I was talking to my father about this. I read somewhere that Nigerian politicians are the highest paid in the world. THE WORLD. THE WORLD.

I'm sure there are Nigerian government officials that receive more money than the U.S. president.

My father said they did that to discourage government corruption. Sorry, I mean "ordinary stealing". Clearly, it's working so well.

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Re: Ebola Patients Abandoned, Health Team Down Tools by nora544: 6:03pm On Aug 18, 2014
phantom:

what country are you from
you can see the animals that are our parliament members in nigeria.

converting what nigerian senators earn into dollars is approximately $200,000/month. that is about obamas annual salary or the annual salary of an OBGYN consultant(attending physician)in the US.
is that not mad shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked angry angry angry angry

I am from Austria, the small country in the middle of europa.

I know that your politicans get much money ! A good doctor in my country gets more than a member from the parliament but he works about 60 hours per week

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Re: Ebola Patients Abandoned, Health Team Down Tools by phantom(m): 6:07pm On Aug 18, 2014
nora544:

I am from Austria, the small country in the middle of europa.

I know that your politicans get much money ! A good doctor in my country gets more than a member from the parliament but he works about 60 hours per week

wow@ the bolded. unfortunately,nigerian citizens would rather be caught dead than allow nigerian doctors earn well.

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Re: Ebola Patients Abandoned, Health Team Down Tools by nora544: 6:17pm On Aug 18, 2014
phantom:

wow@ the bolded. unfortunately,nigerian citizens would rather be caught dead than allow nigerian doctors earn well.

We have a very good health system and people from other countries come to us. We have in Vienna a private hospital where people from arab counries come.

I will try that I can show the hospital where they have the rooms if we had a person with ebola, and our airport has a master plan what they have to do when a person get ill on his fly to vienna, but not since ebola is in west africa, we have no direct fly to west africa.
That comes from the ministery of healt and we get all the informations every day and also about the new drug ZMAP, the co founder is a Professor from the University of life science in Vienna Herta Steinkellner.

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Re: Ebola Patients Abandoned, Health Team Down Tools by nora544: 7:10pm On Aug 18, 2014
That is the part of the hospital in vienna for people with Ebola or other very deathly disease

Re: Ebola Patients Abandoned, Health Team Down Tools by phantom(m): 7:18pm On Aug 18, 2014
hmm....see facilities! fully equipped. countries that take their citizens health seriously.

look at that lovely bedside ultrasound machine! SMH.

any patient admitted here won't need to move out for anything.
almost everything is bedside.
Re: Ebola Patients Abandoned, Health Team Down Tools by Leopantro: 8:14pm On Aug 18, 2014
i live in a country where there is scarcity of medical equipments

i live in a country where very few hospitals have CT scan machines

i live in a country where a stroke patient has to be transported 58km to do a CT scan

i live in a country where surgeries and deliveries have been done using rechargeable lamps

i live in a country where government officials have more faith in hospitals outside the country they rule than the hospitals in their own country

i live in a country where i am shown pictures of equipments and told of treatments in advanced countries that cannot be done in the country

i live in a country where government looters are praised while doctors are looked at with hatred

i live in Nigeria.....

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Re: Ebola Patients Abandoned, Health Team Down Tools by Nobody: 8:16pm On Aug 18, 2014
sad
Re: Ebola Patients Abandoned, Health Team Down Tools by Onegai(f): 8:26pm On Aug 18, 2014
nora544: That is the part of the hospital in vienna for people with Ebola or other very deathly disease


Dear nora544, you just made me weep and start checking for plane tickets grin

Oya mods! How about we change the title of this thread to:

AMERICA REPENTS OF GAY LAW, SAYS SALT, NANO-SILVER CURES EBOLA, ALL INFECTED PATIENTS NOW DISCHARGED WITH N1MILLION THANK YOU FEE, DOCTORS NOW DOING DANFO WORK AND ARE MISERABLE, BITTER-KOLA CURES MORTALITY SEF, NIGERIA IS THE GREATEST COUNTRY HATERS GO AND DIE, UP GEJ!!

Will you finally move this thread to the front page, so we can hold a protest demanding all our governments do the right thing, before this virus spreads and we begin to sound and act like Liberians (breaking into hospitals to free patients) please?


Abeg.

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Re: Ebola Patients Abandoned, Health Team Down Tools by nora544: 8:42pm On Aug 18, 2014
Onegai:

Dear nora544, you just made me weep and start checking for plane tickets grin

Oya mods! How about we change the title of this thread to:

AMERICA REPENTS OF GAY LAW, SAYS SALT, NANO-SILVER CURES EBOLA, ALL INFECTED PATIENTS NOW DISCHARGED WITH N1MILLION THANK YOU FEE, DOCTORS NOW DOING DANFO WORK AND ARE MISERABLE, BITTER-KOLA CURES MORTALITY SEF, NIGERIA IS THE GREATEST COUNTRY HATERS GO AND DIE, UP GEJ!!

Will you finally move this thread to the front page, so we can hold a protest demanding all our governments do the right thing, before this virus spreads and we begin to sound and act like Liberians (breaking into hospitals to free patients) please?


Abeg.

That is the normal look of a intensiv care room in an hospital, they write that they have place that they can have 4 such beds.

They have a special door so that no air from inside the room gets in other rooms.

I know from what i speak because I wake up up after i was clinicaly death in such a intensive care after they let me sleep for 7 days. the nurse washes my hair, take care about me wash me and make all that i feel good.

No need that people have to bring medicine to the hospital all is there also food.

That are some photos from one of the biggest hospitals in europa, it is in vienna and one of the teaching hospitals of the University for medicine Vienna

Re: Ebola Patients Abandoned, Health Team Down Tools by anonimi: 8:45pm On Aug 18, 2014
nora544:

I am from Austria, the small country in the middle of europa.

I know that your politicans get much money ! A good doctor in my country gets more than a member from the parliament but he works about 60 hours per week

I understand that a senior medical doctor in a government hospital earned more than our first Prime Minister.
The military COUP of January 1966 opened the door for this lopsidedness that has led to the crazy amounts our CLUELESS loafing SINators, representaTHIEVES and state legisLOOTERS receive.

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Re: Ebola Patients Abandoned, Health Team Down Tools by anonimi: 9:18pm On Aug 18, 2014
phantom: hmm....see facilities! fully equipped. countries that take their citizens health seriously.

look at that lovely bedside ultrasound machine! SMH.

any patient admitted here won't need to move out for anything.
almost everything is bedside.

No wonder our former Petroleum Minister retired and died there recently:


Nigeria’s former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Dr Rilwanu Lukman died in the early hours of Monday July 21, at his residence in Vienna, Austria after a brief illness.

More from:http://www.channelstv.com/2014/07/21/rilwanu-lukman-former-petroleum-minister-dies-75/

Meanwhile his fellow Northerners/Nigerians are not educated, dying of common ailments in large numbers etc while he FOOLISHLY stashed his money in Austria paying hefty taxes thereon with little or no recognition from the Austrians.

Why are we so stu'pid

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Re: Ebola Patients Abandoned, Health Team Down Tools by nora544: 9:30pm On Aug 18, 2014
Please keep silent what is with all the others who run to UK or Amerika, he knows Austria also as a student he study in Austria in Leoben.

Just this week one died in Uk from Nigeria look at the frontpage

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