The Ebola disaster in P/H. It is no longer how the dreaded disease got to P/H but why a Consultant could be this unprofessional. The sequence of events is as follows: One of those who had contact with Sawyer escaped to P:H and checked into a hotel. When he fell ill, the first hospital he went to declined him treatment suspecting Ebola. First mistake. Why was a report not made? He eventually got a Consultant with UPTH and also runs a private hospital who accepted to treat him, but only in his hotel room. He kept going to treat thin in the hotel until he too contracted the EVD. Within this period he was treating this patient, he was still consulting at the UPTH and his private clinic. He lived with his family that includes a 2 week old baby. The wife is already down with EVD. When the doctor went down, he did not go to the UPTH but got himself admitted to a friends clinic where he was being managed until he died. Have you followed this trail? Index case from Lagos - hotel - first hospital where he was refused - doctor who accepted to treat him - hotel where he was treated - Consultant who was still consulting in UPTH and his private clinic - His family and their contacts - his friend clinic where he died. The index cases driver is still not found and may have been in his village. How many people has he had contact with? Meanwhile, at the point of the doctors death, no alarm bell had rang in P/H about the presence of EVD. His corpse was deposited in UPTH mortuary and it was the autopsy here that indicated EVD. How do you trace the journey of this P/H out break? Its so complicated and tortuous. Have some of these contacts not traveled out of P/H and mingling with people all over Nigeria? Spare a thought and prayer for Nigeria our country. God save Nigeria.
Posted on: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 17:13:26 +0000
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