‘looters Of Liberia’s Ebola Centre Took Bedding
Soaked With Patients’ Fluids’

https://www.nairaland.com/1863211/looters-liberias-ebola-centre-took#25580141

mods front page pls

D level of stupïdity of these folks is alarming. may we not have such in Nigeria. it will be disastrous

MONROVIA (AFP) – Liberian officials were
searching Monday for 17 Ebola patients who fled
an attack on a quarantine centre in the capital
Monrovia, raising fears that they could spread the
deadly and highly contagious disease.
“We have not yet found them,” Information Minister
Lewis Brown said, adding that “those who looted
the place took away mattresses and bedding that
were soaked with fluids from the patients.”
On Saturday youths wielding clubs and knives
raided the medical facility set up in a high school
in the dense-populated West Point slum, some
shouting “there’s no Ebola”, echoing wild rumours
that the epidemic has been made up by the West
to oppress Africans.
The authorities are now considering sealing off the
area, home to around 75,000 people, although
some reports suggest the infected patients may
have already fled West Point.
“All those hooligans who looted the centre are all
now probable carriers of the disease,” said Brown,
the spokesman for President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
“To quarantine the area could be one of the
solutions.”
“We run the risk of facing a difficult to control
situation,” he warned.
Ebola has killed at least 1,145 people in west Africa
since the start of the year. There is no known cure
for the haemorrhagic fever, which can be spread
through bodily fluids including blood and sweat.
The head of the Health Workers Association of
Liberia, George Williams, said the unit had housed
29 patients who “had all tested positive for Ebola”
and were receiving preliminary treatment before
being taken to hospital.
“Of the 29 patients, 17 fled (after the assault),”
Williams said Sunday. “Nine died four days ago
and three others were yesterday taken by force by
their relatives” from the centre, he said.
Fallah Boima’s son Michel was among the patients
who fled the centre. “I am afraid that he could die
somewhere, and I will not know”, he told AFP.
Wilmont Johnson, head of a youth association in
West Point, told journalists Monday that he had
organised a search for the missing patients.
“We searched everywhere but we did not see them.
Those who saw them passing told us that they
have gone into other communities,” Johnson said,
suggesting that quarantining efforts might come
too late.
source:
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/looters-liberias-ebola-centre-took-mattresses-bedding-soaked-patients-fluids/

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?

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

Sometimes i just think that these guys have an i.diotic mentality ,but it also occurs to me that they also think thesame of us.

It is difficult to get the actual number of "honour killings", as they are often disguised as accidents or suicides [EPA]
The policeman jumped to his feet as the man walked into the station and placed the head of hissister, along with the butcher knife that decapitated her, on the table in front of him.
The incident in Kolkata on December 7 was another killing inthe name of "honour" and there has been a surge in such attacks over the past several months.
Nilofar Bibi, 22, was only 14 years old when she left home in an arranged marriage. Alleging torture carried out by her in-laws, Bibi returned to her parents on November 28, but vanished days later.
Her brother, Mehtab Alam, 29, haddiscovered his sister was living with an old boyfriend, Firoz, an auto-rickshaw driver. Alam stormed into the home and dragged Bibi onto the street in broad daylight.
Passers-by looked on in horror as he cut off Bibi's head while saying"she had sinned and had to be punished".
Alam left his sister's body in a pool of blood on the road, and calmly walked to the police station, her head in hand, to surrender himself. The siblings' family expressed support for Alam, saying they were proud he upheld their honour.
In a country currently caught up in collective outrage over a gang rape of a medical student in New Delhi, Bibi's killing registered only a passing reference in the national media.
But the coverage - or the lack of it - failed to hide the true extent of ascourge that bedevils many Indianwomen.
In a similar incident, a 17-year-oldgirl, a resident of Khoraon village, Kaushambi in Uttar Pradesh, was hacked to death by her father for having an affair with a 20-year-old from another religion from the same village, on December 24.
In the south, a 19-year-old woman in Sangameshwar village in Dharward, Karnataka, was allegedly killed and burnt by her parents on December 23.
Killed in the name of 'honour'
"Honour killings" are traditionally associated with developing countries with significant Muslim populations, and India has been no exception.
Source ;
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2012/12/2012121614107670788.html

Why was this story not brought to public notice before she died. So they had to wait for her to live out her life in d uncompleted building b4 accusing the dep. Governor.

massive tech: For those supporting oshiomole my guess is that you dont reside in benin. This man is carrying out some serious taxing systems and revenue systems:
Now let me state some bare facts;
1, he attacked many companies owing million in tax when he just started
2,he increased mimum wage of teachers to 20grand and increased their tax to 15%(very cunny)
3,he increased tution fees of AAU the stated owned university by about 50% of the former
4,he recently closed down ITV benin for 12million worth of tax.
Not to mention other agressive tax schemes. Then why turn to taxing houses that most average citizens suffered to build for years?

front page pls

For those supporting oshiomole my guess is that you dont reside in benin. This man is carrying out some serious taxing systems and revenue systems:
Now let me state some bare facts;
1, he attacked many companies owing million in tax when he just started
2,he increased mimum wage of teachers to 20grand and increased their tax to 15%(very cunny)
3,he increased tution fees of AAU the stated owned university by about 50% of the former
4,he recently closed down ITV benin for 12million worth of tax.
Not to mention other agressive tax schemes. Then why turn to taxing houses that most average citizens suffered to build for years?

Oshiomole proves day after day that he's not for the masses

The Edo state legislators have passed a very controvestial bill into law that mandates every house owner to pay a kind of tax for his property. the bill was passed yesterday with Gov. Oshiomole in full support as against a mass public outcry.
Source:BROADCASTED in ITV benin NEWS YESTERDAY

The Edo state legislators have passed a very controvestial bill into law that mandates every house owner to pay a kind of tax for his property. the bill was passed yesterday with Gov. Oshiomole in support as against a mass public outcry.
Source:BROADCASTED in ITV benin NEWS YESTERDAY

M TECH
dark blue and red
thanks.

massive tech: medicine after death

which way na? I saw an empty post and wanted 2 be d first 2 comment and like magic i'm number 9. Why i be say na when i wan comment una con comment.

medicine after death

lets look at it like this what if one aspiring athlete was really kidnapped and the rest also taken to make it seem like they absconded

whats your take on Oshomole as president of nigeria. He's just too 'rugged' to resign politics as a governor.

someone close the lid pls!

men that talk/gloat too much dont get to do much.