A new report has surfaced about the late Liberian Ebola victim Patrick Sawyer knew he had the deadly virus and escaped being quarantined.
This Day Newspapers
is reporting that Sawyer who was Nigeria’s index case for Ebola virus
was under surveillance by the Liberian health authorities, even though
he still managed to board a flight heading out of the country.
Dr. Nurudeen Mohammed, the Minister of State II for Foreign Affairs, revealed this while speaking with Liberian President Ellen Sirleaf Johnson and Nigeria’s Ambassador to Liberia Chigozie Oby-Nadozie.
According to Mohammed, President Johnson
in a telephone conversation with Nadozie expressed regrets at the
circumstances which the virus had been brought to Nigeria by Sawyer w
was under surveillance.
While briefing members of the diplomatic
corps on Thursday in Abuja on the virus, Mohammed said there was no
time for blaming individuals but for collaboration to combat and stop
the spread.
The Vice President of ECOWAS Dr Toga Mcintosh confirmed that Patrick Sawyer escaped from
quarantine in Liberia to fly to Nigeria.
Mcintosh said “because he had contact
with somebody who died from Ebola, he was quarantined in his own country
but he evaded the quarantine and came to Nigeria.”