Dear All,
In the last fortnight and concerning Ebola in Nigeria, there has been disinformation on the website of the federal ministry of health and a COVER UP on the extent of the disease in the country.
Because 60 per cent of our patients come from Lagos and other neighbouring cities, we stopped taking new patients except pregnant women and children in the Ibarapa district and those we had seen and given appointments for follow-up on 12th August.
On 14th August, we wrote a letter to our state commissioner for health requesting assistance as a frontline hospital. Till now, there is no response.
We have told the patients this partial restriction would be lifted by 1st September when the last known case, as stated by our minister of health, would have been released from quarantine.
And then came this news from Rivers State which NOBODY (except the minister and the Rivers State commissioner for health) knew about. How does one explain the position of the minister and the commissioner except a COVER UP by them? How many other primary contacts of late Patrick Sawyer have been let loose?
When the populace in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone are enjoined NOT to harbour patients with Ebola, our health minister is involved in a COVER UP. One commentator in our of the newspapers asked yesterday: ‘Didn’t the minister know of the Rivers State case before declaring that the last known case will be released from quarantine in the next two days?’.
“and a whole country of about 160 million people that thought it had the disease under containment has now being sent back to the drawing board.” courtesy of a physician minister of health!!
About the Author:
Oluyombo A Awojobi is a Consultant Rural Surgeon
Awojobi Clinic, Eruwa, Oyo State, Nigeria.
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