Emmafrancis: Like seriously Am yet To understand the rational behind the fleeing of people that r supposed to be quarantined.

poiZon:





abeg what is ISOLATION?

smartkid00: quarantine simply means 2 clinically check if one has a contagious disease,is conducted by isolation.

Fourwinds:
u funny sha.! see d question wen u throw for ground. u com make me dey fear.

Ndababa: No one seems to be talking about the greedy doc who opted to treat an Ebola +Ve patient. Now he has infected his pregnant wife n SO many others... This Doc is worst that Patrick Sawyer!

Sorry to say, but Ebola is already outta hand in PH!

May God bring succor fast!

simplemyk:

http://saharareporters.com/2014/08/29/sister-dead-ebola-doctor-escapes-port-harcourt-200-are-quarantined-rivers-state

EbuGeneral: where in abia did she run to? omo na to park my things leave aba go back to school for owerri.

justi4jesu:

Oh please this shouldnt happen because it will be terrible

Ndababa:

True. But look at it this way:

His wife is a doctor, just like him. They own a private clinic. Apparently, both of them must have had contacts with several patients. Then their family members... Then the hotel where the diplomat resided when he was in PH, since no one knew there was an Ebola +ve person in it, business continues... The next occupant(s) of the room, only God know where they're and....

Billygee2u: you see how greed,love of money and selfishness,caused Mr.Enemuo his life ,even yet to sweep his entire family if adequate care is not taken ?

masonkz: Black people sha.

She would have probably been thinking about going to visit a particular pastor to help deliver her

He and his wife-to-be had lofty
dreams of living fulfilled
lives and raising wonderful
children together. The fiance
was two months pregnant and
their traditional marriage had
been fixed for October.
His fiancee, a graduate nurse,
had just secured a job at First
Consultant Hospital, Lagos. He
too also just got a
marketing job with an oil and gas
company. She was
reluctant to go to work on the
first day she was expected to
resume on account of ‘morning
sickness’ (pregnancy
symptoms) and he encouraged
her.
She did! Lo and behold, her first
duty and first patient to
nurse on her first day at work
was the late Patrick Sawyer,
the Liberian-American, who
brought the deadly Ebola Virus
Disease (EVD) to Nigeria. And
that decision put a full stop
to the lofty dreams of a
promising family. Welcome to
the
world of Mr. Dennis Akagha, the
husband-to-be of late
Miss Justina Ejelonu, the nurse,
who contacted and died of
the Ebola disease from Mr.
Sawyer.
In an exclusive, explosive and
passionate interview with
Saturday Vanguard, Akagha, who
contracted the disease
from Miss Justina, was
quarantined, treated, cured and
discharged last week, spoke on
how and why his fiance
died, how he contacted and
survived the disease, how he
was stigmatized and abandoned
by co-workers and
neighbours, and why victims
must be given adequate care.
He said perhaps, Justina would
have survived with better
care. Read on:
---His thoughts on Ebola and late
Justina
The truth is that Justina and I
were not legally married, we
were planning for our traditional
marriage in October and
she just got this job. She was a
qualified graduate nurse
and got the job at the First
Consultant Hospital in Lagos.
She resumed duty at the
hospital on the 21st of July,
while
Patrick Sawyer was admitted at
the hospital on the 20th.
He was her first patient. She was
one of the nurses that
nursed him. She was pregnant
and so her immune system
was weak, which made it easy
for her to contract the
disease. On that first day which
was a Monday, she was
having some pregnancy
symptoms, but I just encouraged
her to go because it was her first
day at work. Sawyer was
her first patient.
The next day, Tuesday, she didn’t
work on Sawyer.
Wednesday and Thursday, she
was off. Then on Friday,
Patrick Sawyer died. They didn’t
know he had Ebola, it was
three days later that they
realized it was Ebola.
Dennis Akagha and Late Justina
Ejelonu
---When did you know that she
had contacted the Ebola virus?
It was after Sawyer died that she
told me she nursed him
but that she was on gloves. She
even thanked God that she
didn’t have direct contact with
him. The fever continued and
we thought it was just pregnancy
symptoms and even when
she went to her hospital, they
confirmed the same thing.
She took drugs and ran tests, yet
it persisted. At night, she
was usually cold and feverish and
her body temperature
was usually very high. At a point,
I began to suspect that
she had contacted the virus. I
did some research on the
disease and realised that she
was having similar
symptoms.
On the 14th of August, it became
serious, she started
stooling and vomiting. I had to
clean up everything. All of a
sudden, she started bleeding and
she started crying that
she had lost the pregnancy. I had
to call her relatives and
other people. The bleeding
persisted and I had to clean up
everything.
---While you were attending to
her did you wear gloves?
Initially I was not wearing gloves
because I felt I had
already been exposed to the
virus. But later I cautioned
myself and started wearing nylon
on my hands. But I
couldn’t stay away from her. I
kept consoling her. Even
when I took her to the hospital,
she wanted to hold me and I
told her to also consider my
safety. She managed to hold
herself and was able to find her
way out in a pool of her
blood. We chartered a taxi to the
hospital, but first, I took
her to First Consultant Hospital
because I felt they should
know more. When we got there,
I was directed to IGH, Yaba.
I told the taxi driver to take us
there. The driver wasn’t even
aware of what was going on as
he took us to Yaba.
Justina was on the floor for 30
minutes before she was
attended to. She was screaming
that she was going to die.
She was seriously bleeding, she
had to come out of the taxi
and lay on the floor. I ran
around, trying to get doctors to
attend to her. After everything,
they took her in, took her
blood samples and the following
day, the result came out
that it was Ebola. They washed
the taxi with chlorine and
also bathed the taxi driver and I
with chlorine spray.
At that point, the taxi driver
knew what was going on, he
couldn’t even take me home
because he was so scared. I
had to look for somewhere to
pass the night in the hospital.
Early the next morning, I left the
Hospital. The taxi driver is
alive today, nothing happened to
him. We have been
checking on him and the last
time we spoke he told me, he
was fine.
---So what happened after you
got exposed to the virus?
14 days after I was exposed to
Ebola, my temperature rose
from the usual 35.2 degrees
centigrade to 37.2. The Lagos
State government gave me a
thermometer the day I dropped
Justina off at the centre. It took
them two straight weeks to
visit my home and to disinfect it.
Before they came, I had
already done the much I could
do. I used bleach and
detergent to clean the whole
house, furniture and clothes
inclusive.
---After that, what happened?
We should be reminded and
educated that a healthy person
with Ebola virus cannot get
anybody infected, except if the
person is sick and totally down
with the virus like what
happened to Sawyer and to my
late wife-to-be, Justina. I
contacted the virus because
Justina was very sick and I was
taking care of her without any
appropriate protection. When
we knew what we were dealing
with it was almost too late
for me as I had already
contacted the virus.
---Since you had already visited
the centre what else was done
for you by the state?
The Lagos State government sent
health professionals to
check on me regularly to know
how l was doing or if l had
the signs of the virus
manifesting. So they used to
come
around to check on me. At some
point they created scenes
with their visits. I was
embarrassed and I was
stigmatized. I
complained severely to them
that I didn’t like what they
were doing. Then, one Saturday
they visited again, I
complained about the pains I
was beginning to experience;
excruciating pains around my
waist. I started praying and
asking people to pray for me.
Before this time, I believed in the
Holy Communion, so I
usually take it daily and do feet
washing. I was going to the
hospital daily to see late Justina.
Initially, I was seeing her
through the window and she
would say I should take her
out of the hospital. She
complained of lack of care.
Perhaps, Justina would have
survived the virus, if not for
the state she was in. Her
immune system was down
because she was pregnant. Along
the line, she had a
miscarriage and lost the baby
due to the Ebola virus
disease.
The doctors, who were supposed
to do an evacuation on
her couldn’t do it because they
claimed that an evacuation
was too risky as she was heavily
infected and may pass on
the virus to another person.
Since nothing was done even
after the bleeding had
stopped, it led to more
complications for her because
the
already dead foetus somehow
got rotten in the womb and
started a damaging process
which led to further
complication. Meanwhile, she
was still stooling and
vomiting and since nobody could
dare to touch her, she was
left on top of her excretions even
when she couldn’t do
much for herself due to her weak
state. She was given her
incisions and other drugs. I
believe if some people survived
Justina should have been one of
them. At a point, I wished I
was a doctor myself; I would
have taken the risk of doing
the evacuation because it really
affected her.
---When was the last day you
saw Justina?
The Lagos State Ebola quarantine
centre and Late Nurse Obi
Justina Ejelonu
The last day I saw her, I had to
go inside the ward because
she was so unkempt as nobody
attended to her. At that
time, the quarantined patients
were in the former facility
where there was no water and
she had messed up herself
again. I had to look for water to
clean her up, change her
pampers and arrange her
bedding. Since I was aware of
what I was dealing with, I got
myself protected while
cleaning up the place. I made
sure she looked better than
when I saw her. Justina was
shivering the last day I saw
her, one side of her stomach was
already swollen, and her
legs were also swollen. I prayed
for her. At a point, she
needed oxygen and the hospital
couldn’t provide it. Her
friends had to provide it. That
was the last day I saw her.
On Sunday Morning, I called her
line like I usually did
before visiting her, but she didn’t
pick her calls. When I got
to the hospital, I was told that
she was dead.
Was she taking your calls while
she was at the facility?
Yes, in fact she called me that
last day and I knew she was
going to give up, because she
was saying some funny
things. She said I should tell my
people to go and meet her
father so as to finalize our
marriage plans, that she’s
leaving that place.
---From what you have said,
were you not scared that you
may
die as well from the disease?
I personally don’t believe in
taking medications. I had the
mentality that I wasn’t sick. I
told the government what I
was experiencing. On the day
they came to pick me up for
treatment, all of a sudden, my
temperature went back to
normal. The shivering and pains
were all gone. So they
decided that they would be
checking on me. But it got to a
point people stopped selling
things to me. It was as if the
government got a report that I
shouldn’t be around. So, they
came and said I should go with
them that they wanted to
take my blood sample. I went
with them and they took my
blood sample, I was kept in a
ward known as the ‘suspected
ward.’
The result came out and it was
positive. I was then taken to
a confined ward. One of the
doctors from UNICEF, a white
lady told me that they were
having issues with the results
and that they would have to re-
run the tests. They did the
tests again and it was still
positive. I told them that it
wasn’t my result and that I was
healthy. I was even doing
my usual exercises (press-ups)
every morning. I kept
telling them that I wasn’t sick.
They took my blood sample
the third time. That night, they
told me that I tested negative
in the last result and that I don’t
have any reason to remain
there. That was how I was
discharged.
---While you were going through
all these at the facility what
happened to your job?
I was a marketer in an oil and
gas company. I worked on
commission basis, but at a
point, I realized that people
were not calling me and when I
called they won’t pick my
calls. Even the person that I
report directly refused to pick
my calls and also refused to
associate with me. Justina and
I just got our jobs, she got hers
at First Consultant Hospital
and I got mine as a marketer
with the oil and gas company.
Do you think that the
government or First Consultant
Hospital should compensate
Justina’s family?
Although, no amount of money
they give to the family will
bring her back I think the
government owes Justina’s
family
a lot because she died trying to
save a situation. Justina
died in active service as her
death wasn’t natural.
---So how did your status change
from positive to negative?
I was reading a book on healing
and taking of the Holy
Communion. So I learnt to take
Holy Communion morning,
afternoon and night. I also
engaged myself in feet-washing
every day before going to bed.
The Almighty God saved me;
the Holy Spirit healed me. It
wasn’t as though l didn’t fall
sick as l had direct contact with
Justina but the Almighty
God healed me. When I was
discharged, I got to my house
on Saturday evening and spent
two hours the next day,
Sunday, thanking God on my
own. I didn’t go to church or
anywhere because of the already
established stigma but
today I can confidently attend
church activities because I
guess they all know I’m free
now. I know my faith and belief
healed me. God also worked for
me apart from the fact that
my immune system is also
working. I believe I got healed
also because friends prayed for
me.

malikmoreni: SHE DEY MAD,? SHE CRAZE THEY'RE JUST CAUSING TROUBLE EVERYWHERE

[size=18pt]They should quarantine her with a CAGE[/size]

Emmafrancis: Like seriously Am yet To understand the rational behind the fleeing of people that r supposed to be quarantined.

doxime: For people raining abuses on the doctor there is no proof anywhere that he knew he was dealing with an Ebola patient.
I think the idea of this report is for a particular tribe to shift blame away from themselves as usual otherwise I don't know why nobody is talking about the diplomat that escaped to ph.

Dpress: no one likes restricted movement.

Beync:
What is the meaning of quarantine? Somebody educate me

MisterLongman: Ignorance. Is indeed a big disease..... IMO she thinks avoiding the quarantine centre is same thing as avoiding ebola but if she already has this disease ( God forbid), she is putting life of the people she came in contact with on her away to abia at risk...... Nigerians are now putting other innocent nigerians at risk...... God punish that stupid ecowas diplomat (patrick sawyer II). He deserves to be arrested for his stupid action.