First Consultants Medical Centre, yesterday, indicted
the Liberian Ambassador to Nigeria for complicity in
the first Ebola case in Nigeria, saying the
Ambassador put the hospital under pressure to
release Sawyer against the wish of its management.

The Hospital also alleged that the Ambassador
threatened to institute a lawsuit against it if Sawyer
was not released.
Briefing journalists for the first time since its
reopening in Lagos, the Medical Director of the
hospital, Dr. Benjamin Ohiaeri, said:”The
ambassador said if we continued to keep him
(Sawyer), it would be tantamount to kidnap and
abuse of human right. He said if we did not release
him, we would be subjecting our hospital to
international diplomatic row and we should not rule
out the possibility of law suit.”
Ohiaeri said amid pressure to discharge Sawyer, the
management immediately conveyed a committee of
three who concluded that although Sawyer has the
right to sign against medical advice, they would not
let him go for public good.

Regretting the loss of his four staff, two doctors and
two nurses to the outbreak, he grieved that the entire
hospital was bereaved. “As if that was not bad
enough for us, the Liberian Ambassador to Nigeria
started to put pressure on us that Mr Sawyer had his
fundamental human right that he wanted to leave the
hospital and he should be allowed to leave .”
“In other words, we have a provision within the law
that allows the person to sign and leave the hospital.

Meanwhile, there is a superior provision within that
law which is that you can decline the patient for
public good.”In order to protect ourselves as an
institution, we called in our lawyer who drafted for us
a resolution, stating that we were not going to let
Sawyer out because it will not be in the public good
to let him out.”
He also said one of their greatest challenges with
Sawyer Ebola virus saga was when he insisted he
must be discharged and unleashed his bio-terror on
the staff.
Within that time Mr. Sawyer insisted that he wanted
to exercise his right to leave the hospital and sign
against medical advice and the executive committee
of the hospital made up of three of us, myself, late
Adadevoh and Dr. Abaniwo, Director clinical services,
deliberately agreed that base on the confidence in
our legendry physician, Dr. Adadevoh, we will not fall
for it.
“Because we did not let him go, Mr. Sawyer
unleashed his bio terror on the staff of the hospital.
He knew he had the disease, he was angry to the
extent that he released his blood to contaminate our
people as they came in.

“We lost four of our key staff who included, Dr.
Adadevoh, she worked here for 21 years, Dr. Amos
Abaniwo, our Chief consultant Anesthesiology and
Director of clinical service, had been with us for 16
years. Dr. Adadevoh died leaving the husband and a
son, Dr. Abaniwo died leaving his wife and three kids,
the third person that died was a nurse Ejeleonu, she
just started working with us that day. Unknown to us
she was two months pregnant and she died with the
pregnancy. The fourth person that died was nurse
Evelyn Uko who had been working with us for the
past 31 years. She was a widow, a single parent
raising four children, she died living those children
with us, multiple tragedy because the four children
were kicked out of the home because of the stigma.
So watching her is a combination of so much burden
on First Consultant.
Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/10/
ebola-first-consultant-indicts-liberian-ambassador/
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Ok, is that how to pay back 9ja for all the sacrifices

wow,The families of heroes and heroins deserve compensations and National recognition for their role in making sure the Ebola saga did not go pandemic in Nigeria

the worst thing is if the government don't compensate the children of those heroes who paid the ultimate price to defeat Ebola in Nigeria

send the brainless agent a.k.a ambassador back to his shit-hole country.

At least now we know the names of the others. So, where are the Uko children now staying?
Tragedy that could have been averted.
The government both state and federal should compensate the families of these heroes that fell whilst protecting the nation.

The LSG and FG should handsomely compensate the families of the Ebola heroes...

They really tried for us!!!

The Nigerian govt. ought to do somn about this. The Liberian ambassador cannot deny his knowledge of the existence of the ebola virus disease in Liberia. So why put an entire nation at risk just because of one of your countrymen? Tell me this isn't a strategized attack.

Seriously, if the Liberian ambassador isn't being investigated already, then our law enforcement officers and the NMA (Nigerian Medical Association) are not doing their jobs right.

For the ambassador to have intervened in such a manner reflects his intentions and that can be likened unto a strategically planned Bioterrorism. The Liberian ambassador to Nigeria deserves a JAIL TERM! He was an accomplice to the murder of so many Nigerians!

And please, let the Nigerian govt. take care of the orphans that heroes like late Dr. Adadevoh left behind, let's do things right. God bless Nigeria!