Nurses at Liberia's premiere
hospital, the John F. Kennedy
Medical Center are refusing to
continue work as death toll
continues to climb from the deadly
Ebola virus in Liberia Friday.
FrontPageAfrica has learned that the
Emergency section at JFK is being
shutdown and a small team of
health care workers and patients are
being moved to another floor in the
hospital.
Sources inform FrontPageAfrica that
the ER will remain closed until it is
sprayed thoroughly and quarantined
for 21 incubation period.
Nurses and doctors are being
advised by family, friends and loved
ones to stay away from the hospital
until the Ebola subsides.
Leading doctors at both JFK and
Phebe Hospital are currently
quarantined at the ELWA Hospital in
Paynesville where health
practitioners from the Samaritan
Purse have been working around the
clock to treat serious cases.
Dr. Nelson Korkor, the lead doctor at
Phebe was brought down to
Monrovia three days ago and is
being quarantined along with Dr. Dr,
Samuel Brisbane, a former Chief
Medical Doctor at the Firestone
Rubber Plantation Hospital and a
Physician assistant. "All three are
still alive but the doctor from Phebe
is the strongest of the three, they
are all alive. Dr. Brisbane is
vomiting occasionally but is holding
up, the PA however is deteriorating,
a senior hospital administrator told
FrontPageAfrica on condition of
anonymity.
Early Friday morning, Liberian
government sources confirmed to FPA
that Mr. Patrick Sawyer, a consultant
at the Ministry of Finance, who had
been quarantined since falling ill
after arriving in the Nigerian state of
Lagos for a conference last Sunday,
died.
Nigerian government health
authorities announced Thursday that
Sawyer, 40 was being tested for the
deadly Ebola virus in Nigeria's
commercial capital of Lagos, a
megacity of 21 million people.
Sawyer's death is the first recorded
case of one of the world's deadliest
diseases in Nigeria, Africa's biggest
economy and most populous nation,
with 170 million people and some of
Africa's least adequate health
infrastructure.
In neighboring Sierra Leone,
virologist Sheik Umar Khan, the lead
doctor credited with helping a lot of
cases, is now himself being treated
by doctors from the organization
Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors
Without Borders).
More than a 1,000 people have been
infected with Ebola in this current
outbreak and there are currently 410
suspected and confirmed cases of
Ebola in Guinea, 196 suspected and
confirmed cases in Liberia, and 442
suspected and confirmed cases in
Sierra Leone, according to the most
recent information from the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention.
More than half of these cases have
been fatal, with 310 suspected
deaths in Guinea, 116 suspected
deaths in Liberia and 206 suspected
deaths in Sierra Leone.
Ebola is hard to diagnose early
because, according to health experts,
the very signs of Ebola, red eyes and
skin rash -- can also be signs of
other conditions, the CDC said.
However, if there's reason to believe
a person has Ebola, there are tests
that can be conducted just days
after symptoms begin.
There is no cure or treatment for
Ebola but there is supportive
therapy, which includes maintaining
proper fluid and electrolyte balance,
maintaining blood pressure and
oxygen levels, and treating
complicating infections, the CDC
said. While there are currently no
treatments or vaccines against Ebola
available for clinical use, there are
some being tested.
FrontPageAfrica
Monrovia, Liberia




http://www.medicalworldnigeria.com/2014/07/top-doctors-ailing-nurses-abandon-posts-jfk-er-shut


This is another reason while nma should not call off strike until hazard allowance is increased from 5k to minimum of 50k.

When the Doctor helping with most cases is himself being treated, fear go catch people die.

But How did Nigeria allow this to happen. I hope a thorough contact tracing would be done on the Liberian man.

Nigeria always disappointing where it matters most.