Five survivors of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) last night visited
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, at the State House, Alausa,
recounting their ordeals and how God saved them. Of the visiting survivors,
three of them – Dr. Morris Ibeawuchi, Dr. Adaora Igonoh and Dr. Akinniyi Fadipe
– are medical practitioners with the First Consultants Medical Centre, the
Lagos-based hospital that treated the index case, the late Patrick Sawyer, who
imported the virus into Nigeria from his home country, Liberia. The two others
were Mr. Dennis Echelonu, who lost his two-month pregnant wife Mrs. Justina
Echelonu Obioma to the virus and Mrs. Kelechi Enemuo, whose husband died from
the disease in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Recounting his experience,
Ibeawuchi acknowledged that he was the doctor, who received the index case,
Sawyer, when ECOWAS officials brought him to First Consultants. He said: I was
the person who received Patrick Sawyer the day he was rushed to First
Consultants Medical Centre. It was like a joke, I did not know what came upon
me that day. Unlike me, I was so reluctant to attend to him. But I was
compelled by my colleagues to do so. When I got there, I was just talking to
him. It was very unlike me. Being a doctor, you must examine your patient.
After due examination, I asked him some questions. But Patrick Sawyer lied to
me. Even the ECOWAS protocol officer who sat there, kept quiet. I asked him why
he was in First Consultants. He lied to me saying that he was at a conference
and felt so weak. As a result, people now rushed him to First Consultants not
knowing that he had collapsed at the airport. On that very day, the ECOWAS
protocol officer was there and did not say anything.
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