Yesterday it was announced that First Consultants Medical Centre had indicted the Liberian Ambassador to Nigeria for complicity in the first Ebola case in Nigeria. The Hospital where brave Ebola doctor worked till she died said the ambassador; Prof. Al-Hassan Conteh put the hospital under pressure to release Sawyer against the wish of its management.
In addition to this, The Hospital also alleges that the Ambassador threatened to institute a lawsuit against it if Sawyer was not released.
The hospital’s Medical Director Dr. Benjamin Ohiaeri announced the indictment at a press briefing, saying...
The ambassador said if we continued to keep him (Sawyer), it would be tantamount to kidnap and abuse of human rights. He said if we did not release him, we would be subjecting our hospital to an international diplomatic row and we should not rule out the possibility of a law suit.
Ohiaeri also revealed that in the middle of the intense pressure to release Sawyer, the hospital management conveyed a committee who concluded that although Sawyer has the right to sign against medical advice, they would not let him go for public good.
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 went on to address Sawyer unleashing his bio-terror on the staff, saying
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, , Dr. Amos Abaniwo, our Chief consultant Anesthesiology and Director of clinical service, Nurse Ejeleonu & Nurse Evelyn Uko worked with the hospital for 31 years.
Nurse Uko was a single parent raising four kids, after her death her four kids were kicked out of their home because of the stigma.
Money can not bring back the dead but I am all for the hospital suing the Liberian Ambassador. The money should be given to families of staff that died!
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http://www.gisttme.blogspot.com/ebola-first-consultant-hospital-indict-liberian-ambassador-patrick-sawyer/
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