HOW NIGERIA DEALT WITH EBOLA!! MAINTAIN PERSONAL HYGIENE NEMA Its arrival in Lagos, an overcrowded city of 21 million people. The first case in Nigeria was imported from Liberia when a diplomat Patrick Sawer collapsed at the main international airport in Lagos on July 20. We were caught unaware, airport staff were not prepared and the government had not set up any hospital isolation unit, so he was able to infect several people, including health workers in the hospital where he was taken. But they acted fast after the doctor on duty, who later herself died of the disease, quarantined him in the hospital against his will and contacted Liberian officials not even after he became aggressive and demanded to be set free. If we had let him out, within 24 hours of being here, he would have contacted and infected a lot more people. Once the hospital contacted the State and Federal Government, authorities quickly set up an equipped isolation unit and all other contacts were
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