The widow of late Liberian-American, Patrick
Sawyer, — Nigeria’s first Ebola case — has
defended her husband decision to travel to
Nigeria, saying he did so in desperate search
for a country with better healthcare system
than his own country.

According to reports from TMZ Liberia
Magazine, Decontee Sawyer, a radio host in
New York, explained that her husband had no
trust in the healthcare system in Liberia and
had possibly headed to Nigeria with the hope
of receiving better treatment for his ailment.
Mrs. Sawyer was said to have shared her
thoughts on her Facebook profile
“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.”

Many Nigerians have described Mr. Sawyer as a
“biological terrorist” arguing that he came into
the country deliberately to spread the disease.

In her post, Mrs. Sawyer wrote that the fact
that her husband avoided contact with others at
the James Sprigg Payne’s Airport in Monrovia
as revealed by airport CCTV footage proved he
didn’t set out to infect others with the disease
and perhaps his actions were that of a dying
man in desperate search for help.

President Jonathan, on Monday in Abuja,
described Mr Sawyer’s decision to travel to
Nigeria as pure “madness” and “craziness.”
“Sawyer that brought this Ebola to Nigeria; his
sister died of Ebola. And he started acting
somehow, his country asked him not to leave
the country, let them observe him, but the
crazy man decided to leave and found his way
here,” Jonathan said.
Mrs Sawyer wrote, “It has been reported that
Patrick avoided physical contact with everyone
he came across during his trip from Liberia to
Nigeria. 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 then slammed the Liberian
President, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, who said Mr
Sawyer was indisciplined and disrespectful for
failing to heed medical advise not to travel.
She said if President 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 use 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.

Source: www.today.ng/news/ebola-outbreak-why-patrick-sawyer-travelled-to-nigeria-wife/

All I see here is trash. How can she say Patrick came for a better healthcare attention in Nigeria. Since he avoided making contacts wit his ppl in Liberia, why did he com to Nigeria to make dos contacts and did he divulge his health condition to anyone wen he got to Nigeria?

tolustx:
All I see here is trash. How can she say Patrick came for a better healthcare attention in Nigeria. Since he avoided making contacts wit his ppl in Liberia, why did he com to Nigeria to make dos contacts and did he divulge his health condition to anyone wen he got to Nigeria?

Good question. Did he even inform the doctors and nurses he met about his Ebola case?

Screw u ma without even reading what you wrote.