MONROVIA (AFP) – Liberian officials were
searching Monday for 17 Ebola patients who fled
an attack on a quarantine centre in the capital
Monrovia, raising fears that they could spread the
deadly and highly contagious disease.
“We have not yet found them,” Information Minister
Lewis Brown said, adding that “those who looted
the place took away mattresses and bedding that
were soaked with fluids from the patients.”
On Saturday youths wielding clubs and knives
raided the medical facility set up in a high school
in the dense-populated West Point slum, some
shouting “there’s no Ebola”, echoing wild rumours
that the epidemic has been made up by the West
to oppress Africans.
The authorities are now considering sealing off the
area, home to around 75,000 people, although
some reports suggest the infected patients may
have already fled West Point.
“All those hooligans who looted the centre are all
now probable carriers of the disease,” said Brown,
the spokesman for President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
“To quarantine the area could be one of the
solutions.”
“We run the risk of facing a difficult to control
situation,” he warned.
Ebola has killed at least 1,145 people in west Africa
since the start of the year. There is no known cure
for the haemorrhagic fever, which can be spread
through bodily fluids including blood and sweat.
The head of the Health Workers Association of
Liberia, George Williams, said the unit had housed
29 patients who “had all tested positive for Ebola”
and were receiving preliminary treatment before
being taken to hospital.
“Of the 29 patients, 17 fled (after the assault),”
Williams said Sunday. “Nine died four days ago
and three others were yesterday taken by force by
their relatives” from the centre, he said.
Fallah Boima’s son Michel was among the patients
who fled the centre. “I am afraid that he could die
somewhere, and I will not know”, he told AFP.
Wilmont Johnson, head of a youth association in
West Point, told journalists Monday that he had
organised a search for the missing patients.
“We searched everywhere but we did not see them.
Those who saw them passing told us that they
have gone into other communities,” Johnson said,
suggesting that quarantining efforts might come
too late.
source:
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/looters-liberias-ebola-centre-took-mattresses-bedding-soaked-patients-fluids/

cursed robbers

Nigerians beware of imported bed.

some people are so criminal business oriented that they mind importing bed from Liberia

God help us

D level of stupïdity of these folks is alarming. may we not have such in Nigeria. it will be disastrous

mods front page pls

The world's dumbest criminals. I bet some of them will be dead in weeks.

massivetech: mods front page pls

yea front page please

nigerians will soon start buying okrika bed now.

if they can bath with salt,they can do anything

I hope dey get a good night rest on d matress.....dats if dis is nt conspiracy anyway.

I suspect those vagabonds have Ebola and are hell bent on spreading the deadly virus via all means possible.... if not for insanity, what does a thief need a virus soaked bedding for?!

This is ridiculous!

Sabadon: I hope dey get a good night rest on d matress.....dats if dis is nt conspiracy anyway.

You mean they could have been injected with some psychotic drugs a set loose to go and do that like zomibie.

Anything seem good enough for suffering african,even ebola infested mattresses. I am not very surprise.

What happened to the fortified security that was suppose to guard the place and keep the infected enclosed?I am sure the victims felt they were in a death camp,left there to die agonizingly and away from the general public.It must have felt like nazi death camps.

They'll export the stolen items to Nigeria.

Liberians are medical terrorists.

RIP Liberia, you are all gonna die.

Well one month from now the thievs would probably be dead if a cure is not found soon.

world's dullest robbers. LMAO. This does not even make sense. SMH

May be they believe that their ODAECHI will protect them this is turning to a disaster

These robbers are more clueless and st.upid than APC minions on nairaland.

Stupidity at the highest level...

. Got brains but got no sense

Some people are angry that ebola isnt spreading fast enough so they had to do something drastic

baby124: world's dullest robbers. LMAO. This does not even make sense. SMH

No sense whatsoever.

From all indication somebody snatched the robbers' brain from them for them to go on stealing ebola laced cloths.

the level of stupidity in Liberia is really alarming, and I Dont tink dey have any value for life just like our northern brother