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tollu: I can't even lie Mamarika, this story is really saddening. How are they doing currently? I hope none of them has fallen ill?



Hello Leopantro,
Thank you for trying to take this up. Have you and Mamarika talked about this?

This situation is one to be really concerned about.

We have and I'm happy to say the family had been linked with the W.H.O officials and proper care started. But I have learned that what we read on the media is different from what is really happening on ground.

Nigeria officially requested the ZMapp Ebola cure from the American government last week, the request was subsequently turned down with the excuse that it was still an experimental drug and further tests have to be done before it could be safe for Nigerians.

A lot of Nigerians have expressed opinions that an unsafe cure is better than no cure at all and considering the fact that two Americans have been cured with the drug and our Ebola problem was actually deliberately created by an American (Patrick Sawyer who deliberately brought Ebola to Nigeria), America should give us some consideration.

This was not to be and they have consistently refused us the drugs, Now as Vanguard reports they have delivered the drug to Spain to save the life of a missionary infected in Africa. Read Vanguards report below:

The drug called ZMapp arrived at Madrid’s La Paz-Carlos III hospital where the 75-year-old missionary was being treated in isolation, the health ministry said in a statement late on Saturday.

Spain’s drug safety agency allowed the “exceptional importation” of ZMapp under a law that allows “the use of non-authorised medications in cases where a patent’s life is in danger and they can’t be treated satisfactorily with an authorised medication,” it said.

The Roman Catholic priest, Miguel Pajares, was one of three people who tested positive for Ebola at the Saint Joseph Hospital in the Liberian capital Monrovia where he worked.

He was brought back to Spain on Thursday on a medically equipped Spanish airforce plane, the first patient in the fast-spreading Ebola outbreak to be evacuated to Europe for treatment.

Spanish health authorities said Thursday the priest was in a stable condition. The hospital is not providing medical updates for the missionary at his request.

The military flight also evacuated Spanish nun Juliana Bonoha Bohe, 65, who worked at the same hospital as Pajares in Liberia and who was found not to have Ebola.

The Spanish charity Pajares worked for, the Hospitaller Brothers of St. John of God, had asked Madrid to bring to Spain for treatment two African missionaries infected with Ebola who also worked at the hospital but the request was turned down.

One of those two missionaries, a Congolese nun, died on Saturday due to Ebola, the charity said.

There is no proven treatment or cure for Ebola, which causes severe fever and, in the worst cases, unstoppable bleeding. Some 55 percent of cases in this outbreak have been fatal.

Two Americans infected with Ebola while treating patients in Liberia have shown signs of improvement since being given Zmapp back in the United States but health authorities say it is too early to tell if the drug[left][/left] had anything to do with that.

ZMapp, a treatment made by private US company Mapp Pharmaceuticals, is still in an extremely early phase of development and had only been tested previously on monkeys.

The use of the medication has sparked an ethical controversy as experts call for it to be made available to African nations.

http://www.informationng.com/2014/08/ebola-after-rejecting-nigerias-request-for-ebola-drug-america-gives-it-to-spain.html?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

This must be really awkward for the party involved. The security-heavy, Android KitKat-toting Blackphone handset got rooted in five minutes at the BlackHat security conference.



To make matters even more interesting, the abovementioned feat was achieved without the need to unlock the Blackphone’s bootloader. Justin Case – the man behind the speedy root, used the feat to take a poke at Blackphone.

It is worth noting that the root exploit has been mostly patched already. The remaining root exploit is achievable only with the user’s consent.



Announced back in January, the Blackphone was touted as an Android smartphone that allows its users to take full control of their privacy. The device’s manufacturer has boasted about the device’s tight security features. Its efforts included a public spat with BlackBerry over whose platform is more secure.

Considering that the heavy security suite is the key selling point of the Blackphone, I find having the device rooted in five minutes a bit unnerving

http://blog.gsmarena.com/security-heavy-blackphone-gets-rooted-five-minutes/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Just imagine the number of individuals the driver contacted before he was quarantined. Or the flight attendants who helped the man off the plane.

eaglechild: The Liberian was handled with a high index of suspicion by the healthcare workers based on his symptoms and history of travel.

No one was certain it was Ebola at the time he presented and he denied history of contact which would have helped curb the spread. However, the medical personnel still insisted that he be tested for Ebola

Quarantine processes started immediately the case was confirmed to be Ebola and that was when contact tracing also started and that was when the nurse was picked up. I cannot corroborate your story that the nurse was neglected because she was not the only contact and she was not even the first to test positive.

Bear in mind that a host of other illnesses can present as Ebola, it is not a spot diagnosis, and the singular most important thing in this scenario that would have helped is a history of contact which was vehemently denied by the index case.

Do not let emotions and hear say becloud your judgement.

Exactly as I explained earlier is how the incident occurred. Read the link below

https://www.nairaland.com/1851567/ebola-outbreak-how-50-year-old-nurse

Details of how the first Nigerian to die of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) have emerged. The deceased was said to have been in her 50s and a nurse at the First Consultant Hospital, Obalende, Lagos. The nurse was believed to have been on duty on that fateful day when Patrick Sawyer — a Liberian-American who brought in the virus to Nigeria — was brought in for treatment at the hospital The veteran nurse, a mother of four, who lost her husband just recently, making her the breadwinner of her family, was the heath officer who received Sawyer on arrival at the hospital. According to reports from This Day, after initial checks were carried out on him and his temperature was seen to be high, it was her that administered a drip on him following a directive from a 27-year old medical officer who joined the hospital two months earlier after his housemanship. These young medical officer also gave a helping hand in the process of administering the drip on Sawyer. Like any diligent and compassionate caregiver would have done, she gave Sawyer all the care needed. She even assisted him into the bathroom by helping him to hold his drip when he requested to use the toilet. She would later attend to other patients who came to the hospital for treatment at that period. Sawyer had told the medical team on duty that he had malaria. But event began to unfold in quick succession when the result of the first series of tests conducted on Sawyer still did not show any trace of malaria. He still did not tell the hospital personnel that he had Ebola – a deadly and contagious virus that kills its carrier in a matter of days. A second test was then carried out, which also did not show any trace of malaria. That was when the possibility that he may be suffering from a more serious ailment began to dawn on the medical team. When Sawyer was told of the possibility that he may have been infected with Ebola virus, he was said to have become enraged, and even demanded to leave, a request the hospital rejected. Not even the intervention of an ambassador from the Liberian embassy, who also requested that Sawyer should be released because of his status as a top government official and a diplomat, would make the hospital release him. Instead, the hospital took a proactive step by informing relevant authorities of the presence of a suspected Ebola patient. That was the decisive action that saved the nation from ‘a weaponised’ human being that would have been unleashed on its population. Sawyer could not be said to have been oblivious of his health status before heading to Nigeria. Even at the Liberian airport where he boarded an Asky Flight to Nigeria, he looked ill, avoided body contact with people at the airport in his country, and at a point before boarding, he laid down on his stomach – an indication that he was in great pain – as caught on the surveillance camera. Even on arrival in Lagos, the Liberian was still terribly ill and was assisted out of the aircraft. Even though his point of embarkment was Liberia, a country in the throes of Ebola, no one thought he was a carrier of a deadly virus. And within hours after his arrival, he ended up at First Consultant Hospital. It is believed that he may have contracted the virus from his sister who was said to have died of the disease not long ago. But what he did after that was unimaginable. He converted himself to a ‘weapon of mass destruction’ and chose his target – Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa. Though, he is dead, his arrival now put the nation’s 170 million people at the risk of this deadly virus. The diligent nurse who was among the first set of Nigerians that had primary contact with him died days after Sawyer’s death. Two of her children who were living with her have also been quarantined for close monitoring. Also, one of the patients she attended to when Sawyer was on admission has tested positive to the virus. That patient was the lady whose presence at the NNPC Clinic in Lagos for treatment led to the closure of the medical facility last week. The 27 year- old medical officer that attended to Sawyer has also tested positive to Ebola virus and he is among the eight Nigerians that have tested positive to the deadly virus, seven of whom are currently under close observation at the Mainland Infectious Diseases Hospital, Yaba. Another nurse who was on duty on that fateful day and who carried out checks on him has also tested positive to Ebola virus. She is among the nine confirmed cases in the country, while 139 others are said to be under surveillance. But there are fears about how feasible it would be to identify all secondary contacts. For instance, the driver who conveyed Sawyer from the airport to First Consultant Hospital was said to have ran to his village before he was later found and quarantined for further observation. Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, noted this while confirming that relvant authorities know the whereabouts of all primary contacts, but “secondary contacts are much more in number and knowing about them depends on information given by the primary contact.” There are also worries about the dearth of care-givers at the quarantine center. It was gathered that only one caregiver, who is a WHO official, is attending to the seven confirmed carriers of the virus at the center, all of whom are said to be in a hall – a development that showed that Nigeria was really not prepared for this kind of an infectious disease outbreak. Already President Goodluck Jonathan has declared a national emergency and approved N1.9 billion special fund to combat the disease, while the minister of health has announced government’s intention to provide insurance cover for those willing to be caregivers. There are still some salient posers which demand urgent anwers: Are we prepared for this kind of medical emergency? How do we get proper and well equipped quarantine centers within the shortest possible time? How do we find caregivers that would be willing to work at quarantine centers? And even if we get caregivers, are they well trained to handle this kind of situation? At the various ports of entry, should an Ebola infected person be identified what measure should be taken immediately?

http://www.today.ng/news/ebola-outbreak-how-50-year-old-nurse-mother-of-four-succumbed-to-death-after-treating-patrick-sawyer/

jpphilips: Did you ask her to come forward with her story?
Does it occur to you that the lying minister for health could send an army to silence her?
Are you aware a lot of people may have been in the same situation who will need the same assistance you want to render in private?

you should drop the contact here not sending private messages, you are even more dumb than your government.

I opened a thread calling for the sack of prof. chukwu, guess her revelation caps it all.
A family in distress has been officially declared " on the run" by dumb officials.

Guy, calm down. Why the insult? We all know the minister is not "on top of the situation". I'm a concern doctor trying to help out someone in dire need. And you have been watching too many movie's; to silence her? Dude, check online and Twitter.soo many things are being said about the minister. I'm trying to help them and I have linked them to some public health doctors that are working without the government's involvement to try and help. What have you done to help the situation apart from act hysterical and write publications. If the health minister is removed, will the scourge of Ebola disappear? And considering Nigerian's politics, do you think someone else that is competent will be easily found?

Take a chill pill. Why don't you post your number so that she can call you?

eaglechild: The Liberian was handled with a high index of suspicion by the healthcare workers based on his symptoms and history of travel.

No one was certain it was Ebola at the time he presented and he denied history of contact which would have helped curb the spread. However, the medical personnel still insisted that he be tested for Ebola

Quarantine processes started immediately the case was confirmed to be Ebola and that was when contact tracing also started and that was when the nurse was picked up. I cannot corroborate your story that the nurse was neglected because she was not the only contact and she was not even the first to test positive.

Bear in mind that a host of other illnesses can present as Ebola, it is not a spot diagnosis, and the singular most important thing in this scenario that would have helped is a history of contact which was vehemently denied by the index case.

Do not let emotions and hear say becloud your judgement.

The index of suspicion started two days after he was admitted. Bear in mind that this was a VIP patient that flew in for a lecture in calabar, the doctors on call would have been in their toes to provide the best care they could give. How else would you explain two doctors and nurses getting the virus and testing positive? Or could the doctors be so incompetent not to inform the authorites immediately the patient entered the hospital. Given that he was hiding the history of contact and didn't start bleeding at onset, they would have though sepsis and started treatment. Also, considering the recent abandonment of one of those doctors until awareness and intervention was done, I wouldn't put it pass the government to do such.

mamarika: am goiing through nothing please,ℓ̊ only feel bad that people are terrible,spreading lies they never investigated,do u know how cruel it is?saying the nurse did not show up forr treatment Απϑ that's why she died!that's very wicked,meanwhile U̶̲̥̅̊ can go ahead to copy whatever, Απϑ mind you am not directly connected to the family,the late nurse niece is ♍Ɣ friend Απϑ colleague,so if Ƌ̲яε̲̣̣̣̥ really forr real ℓ̊ could give you her contact so you talk with her .

thank you. did you get my PM?

mez: Thank God! Responding to treatment?

well, he is positive but not dead yet.
hope he recovers.

mamarika: Stop this ignorance allll of u,the one who created this trade is a wickedd liar!how could people say things that U̶̲̥̅̊ aree not sure of ?things as wicked as this?who told u that nonsense?honestly Nigeria is in trouble Απϑ filled with lies .almost everyone is a liar.GoD !!! this is soo wicked.
Forr your information,that nurse who died (the first Nigerian τ̅☺ die)is a widow,have four kids ,the first son is serving outside Lagos Απϑ she lives with 3 there in lag.am very very close to that family so ℓ̊ have first hand info abt them.
U said the nurse ran away Απϑ refused to come forr treatment that's why she died.may GOD forgive you forr this wicked statement!
She worked in a hospital Απϑ left home as usual after her duty time,when later the hospital got to knw of what exactly was Patrick sawyers problem Απϑ got the ministry of health involved what physical efforts did dey make to get all the persons who had contact with him for proper isolation Απϑ quarantine?nothing but all they do Ȋ̝̊̅§ keep making false lies in the media "we have isolated all the people who had contact with the liberian.
Untill this woman started having fever @ home Απϑ then it was getting worse that her immediate younger brother "who has a wife Απϑ a child "plus her 3 kids got the hospital on fone "ℓ̊ mean first consultant "where she works that they told them to isolate the woman Απϑ leave where she is.they took the adress from them Απϑ later they came with an ambulance to pick her .they gave the relatives some numbers to reach them with.
But ℓ̊ tell you the last conversation,this people had with this medical persons was on Tuesday nite when they called them to say the nurse was dead.of course they never went to see the course!
Now tell me,is it not the work of those medicals to go Bα̲̅я̲̅K Απϑ pick up the contacts as they proclaim to us on the media?but № ,they work only on the media.they never cared to go Απϑ fish out people who has had contact with the woman.even when the family has been calling those numbers since Tuesday,none is available,the one which Ȋ̝̊̅§ available,№ one Ȋ̝̊̅§ picking up.they had to go Απϑ lodge themselve in a hotel room in a bid to isolate themselves " the womans 3kids Απϑ her younger bro "all out of confusion.saying they will not move out of there untill they can either contact those w.H.0 persons for proper treament Απϑ quarantine but if they don't they will stay in that hotel room forr @least 30 days as since they Ƌ̲яε̲̣̣̣̥ not sure if they have it or not Απϑ since the incubation period is 21days Max.
Only one who is close to that family knows the trauma Απϑ confusion they Ƌ̲яε̲̣̣̣̥ going thru, our govt Ȋ̝̊̅§ doing nothing to put contact in check, it soo annoying Απϑ pathetic,ℓ̊ would have never beleived this going by all the news ℓ̊ hear abt how the ministry of health Ȋ̝̊̅§ helping,but knw ℓ̊ A̶̲̥̅♏ very close τ̅☺ them so ℓ̊ speak with them every day.as @ this morning when last ℓ̊ spoke with them,they are still in the hotel room.

my apologies for what you and the family is going through. can i have your permission to copy and use what you wrote. i want to link you up with thr proper officials. have also sent you a PM. kindly reply. thank you.

Nurse Justina Obi Ejelonu, has been confirmed by World Health Organization (WHO) officials to have contacted the Ebola Virus. She is one of the Nurses that attended to the Liberian Ebola patient, Mr Sawyerr at First Consultant Hospital Obalande.
The Ebonyi State University Abakaliki graduate wrote about her experience early this week attending to the Liberian Ebola Patient that died in her Hospital.

According to Hope For Nigeria, Nurse Justina wrote:, "I never contacted his fluids. I checked his Vitals,helped him with his food. (He was too weak).....I basically touched where his hands touched and that is d only contact. Not directly with his fluids. "At a stage, he yanked off his infusion and we had blood everywhere on his bed.....but the ward maids took care of that and changed his linens with great precaution.every patient is treated as high risk .....if it were airborne, by now wahala for dey. I still thank God."
"Friends, up to our uniforms and all linens were burnt off. We are on surveillance and off work till 11th".

"Our samples have long been taken by WHO officials and so far we have been fine.
"For me, kudos to my hospital management cos we work professionally with every patient considered a high risk cos thats d training. Had it been a hospital where they manage ordinary gloves like Govt hospital...Wahala for dey o. I must also thank Lagos Govt....infact! Even federal govt sef....all been supportive.
"Im good and so are the others in d hosp....."

Sadly, Nurse Justina is now an Ebola patient and has been quarantined. While we pray for her, we Must sign the PETITION To the USA Government to release the ZMapp Drugs that has been used on the other American patients in Liberia.

CLick on This Link Now: http://wh.gov/lujQF : Fill out your Name and Submit the Petition to President Obama.
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We Must Not allow Nurse Justina to Die. - Hope For Nigeria

‘National Hospital has no quarantine centre’

AUGUST 9, 2014 BY SUNDAY ABORISADE AND ADE ADESOMOJU, ABUJA


The Federal Government has yet to create a quarantine centre for the treatment of persons suspected to have been infected with the deadly Ebola virus disease.

Spokesperson for the National Hospital, Abuja, Dr. Tayo Haastrup, who stated this in a telephone interview with one of our correspondents, however, said that the Federal Ministry of Health had established centres in collaboration with some private health facilities in the nation’s capital city.

mez: The first victim of Ebola is dead. The poor doctor is quarantined, and abandoned as I hear.

getting much better care now.

The husband and children of the Nigerian nurse who died after getting infected with the Ebola virus are on the run, the health officials in the country have said.

Nigeria is the fourth West African country to be hit by the Ebola outbreak since it first emerged in March in Guinea. The virus entered the country when Patrick Sawyer, who was suffering from the disease arrived by plane late last month in Lagos.

Sawyer, who worked for the Liberian government in Monrovia and had a wife and three young daughters in Minnesota, was on a business flight to Nigeria when he fell ill.

The nurse, the only Nigerian fatality from the disease which has killed over 900 people in four West African countries, was exposed to the virus at a health facility Sawyer was taken before his death.

The nurse’s family were not the first to flee from quarantine. In Sierra Leone, health ministry data and officials, dozens of people confirmed by laboratory tests to have Ebola are now unaccounted for.

Industry watchers say the government more increase public awareness and sensitisation to educate the public.

Meanwhile, the World Health Organisation (WHO) is meeting with Nigerian Ebola Research Team on control and remedy of the disease.

A six-man research committee was inaugurated by the Federal Government on August 4, 2014 with a mandate to carry out research on the deadly contagious virus.

http://businessdayonline.com/2014/08/ebola-family-of-dead-nurse-on-the-run/

Forgive me if this sounds stupid but did he also declare any public holiday?

Medical workers and other health professionals are expected to regard this declaration of a National Emergency as a patriotic call to duty and service.

Patriotic, my foot.

What kind of offer is that?

OMG.

NIGERIANS.

ollah1: Furthermore, the family of the nurse that passed out lately are on the run. ON THE RUN!. where are they running to? Infecting other innocent civilians. Hmm! Watching closely!

they are in Imo state. with the kids

how i wish the minister of health could do the same.

I thought my decoder had developed a fault. It would suddenly rescan on it's own or it would scan on not booting up get all the stations then start scanning again. And scanning time is 5-7 minutes.

natureblack: what are you trying to say

oh, sorry about that. I meant, they could take him there. I was taking tongue in cheek

natureblack: what are you trying to say

let me break it down for you.

Obama has refused to allow the new drug to leave America. the Nigerian government has failed in preparedness or handling the crisis. as I type, one of the doctors that treated the Liberian man has tested positive and has been abandoned by the healthcare workers taking care of him because of fear. nothing is working.

America invested
in science, Nigeria invested in
Religion. Ebola came,
Nigerians are praying for
American science.

They couls take him here

This is a beautiful story which can actually be real based on the extent of the spread of the virus but i want to bring it to real life.

The Dr Abiye, the doctor on duty who first contacted the patient in the hospital, the real doctor, has been abandoned by the healthworkers taking care of him. All I.V fluids and medications have been stopped. We are pleading to Nigerians not to allow the brave doctor to die like a lab reject.

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cirmuell: is that handbill real.

i kid you not

America invested
in science, Nigeria invested in
Religion. Ebola came,
Nigerians are praying for
American science.

unless the information gets to the grassroot as quickly as possible, the below would be rampant in this country.
imagine the crowd that would be at this event. then imagine a lot of sick people in that event. how many would have access to internet.

America invested in science, Nigeria invested in Religion. Ebola came, Nigerians are praying for American science.