The widow of late Patrick Sawyer, the
Liberian-American who brought Ebola into
Nigeria, has made heartfelt revelations on
why her husband deliberately came into the
country with the deadly disease .
Premium Times reports that the wife of the
late Patrick, Decontee Sawyer, who is a Radio
Host in New York has cleared the rumours
about how her husband was defiant to the law
that restricted any Ebola infected person from
travelling outside the country.
Decontee made it known that it was the
yearning of his late husband to receive
adequate health care which he could not get in
Liberia that made him opted to travel down to
Africa’s most populous country, Nigeria.
Mrs Sawyer also took to her Facebook account
to explain more about it. In her words: “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.”
The late Liberian-American’s decision to travel
down to Nigeria has caused so many uproar and
panic in the country as many Nigerians have
booed the late Sawyer as an inconsiderate
fellow who just wanted to deliberately spread
the deadly disease. Even the Nigerian
President, Goodluck Jonathan, few days ago
lambasted the late Sawyer calling him a mad
man
for the irrational decision he took by travelling
to Nigeria.
Mrs. Sawyer however combated words of many
people saying her husband deliberately
brought the disease to the country by saying:
“It has been reported that Patrick avoided
physical contact with everyone he came across
during his trip from Liberia to Nigeria. The
CCTV in the airport revealed it. 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 further took a swipe at the
Liberian President, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, who
said Mr Sawyer was indisciplined and
disrespectful for failing to heed medical advice
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 used 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.
It would be recalled that Nigeria had a clean
slate of the record of the disease not until the
late Patrick Sawyer walked right into the
country’s biggest city, Lagos and infected the
health workers who attended to him.


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Sympathy to Decontee. What's done is done but can be undone.

Its time we stop giving Sawyer's family undue attention. That b@st@rd was a medical terrorist.

May he Rot In Hell

This is serious