The widow of late Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian who
brought Ebola into Nigeria, has defended her
husband’s decision to travel to Nigeria, saying he
did so in desperate search for a country with
better healthcare system than his own country.
In an article published earlier yesterday, TMZ
Liberia Magazine quoted Decontee Sawyer, who is
a radio host in New York, as explaining that Mr.
Sawyer 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.
According to an online publication, Premium
Times, Mrs. Sawyer shared her thoughts on her
Facebook profile from which TMZ Liberia sourced it
for publication. “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.”
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.
“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 took a swipe at the Liberian
President, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, who said Mr
Sawyer was indiscipline and disrespectful for
failing to heed medical advise not to travel. Mrs
Sawyer said if President Johnson-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:
http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=76877

well the lady speaks some truth. but for the love of God Mr Sawyer was a US citizen. why didn't he go there where healing is assured?

ok ooo. ..and he pisse.d on the medical team tending to him when he was fully aware of the implications of his fluid touching fellow humans.....tell us another story joor

Why Nigeria of all places at least if he was looking 4 a country with an A+ medical facility y nt fly 2 d US...e jst come here con yeye our beloved country

Mrs Sawyer or soyabeans u call urself! Your husband is a wicked man, he knew he was very ill and enter Nija just to pass the barton of Ebola to most populous country in Africa.

He had all the time to return to the states. Why did he chose nigeria. Why will he do that. There is no excuse not even the cure and vaccine pronouncement by labaran maku would have made him come here.

The US is a better place anytime anyday medically.
How can any right thinking American citizen prefer Nigeria to America for medical treatment.

Madam sawyer, ur story get k-leg.

FUNNY LIES!!! ALL LIES. DID SHE KNOW THAT HER HUSBAND BROUGHT OUT HIS PPENNIS AND STARTED URIINATING ON THE NURSES, JUST TO ENSURE THAT NIGERIANS WERE INFECTED.
SAWYER'S ORIGINAL PLAN WAS TO COME TO NIGERIA, AND INFECT AS MANY GIRLS (PROSTITUTES) AND OTHERS THAT HE WOULD COME IN CONTACT WITH.
GOD WAS SO KIND TO THIS WICKED COUNTRY, NIGERIA. GOD ARRESTED THE SITUATION BY MAKING MR PATRIK SAWYER TO BE SOOOO WEAK, THAT HE FAINTED, BEFORE ACTUALLY INFECTING ENOUGH NIGERIANS.

Mrs suya, you just lied
You don't know your husband well


Your President threw rocks at him
My President called him a mad man

What will the devil do to him in hell!?
#justasking

For those of you that ca read english. What was this soya beans woman saying ?