Why Patrick Sawyer Travelled To Nigeria – Wife; Fear At Lagos Hospital

                                      

                                

                                       Pictures of Sawyer and wife with child

Widow of late Patrick Sawyer, Decontee, has said her deceased husband traveled to Nigeria in a desperate search for possible cure, reports odogwuemekaodogwu.com

Disclosing this in an article published in the TMZ Liberia magazine, she explained that 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.

Her thoughts shared on her Facebook profile from which TMZ Liberia sourced it for publication, is reproduced below:

“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.

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, more developed country than Liberia, I would be able to get some help. How ironic.”

Fear at Lagos Hospital

 The fear at Orile-Agege General Hospital, Agege Local Government, Lagos was too much that activities were disrupted for hours, Wednesday, when a patient suspected to have contracted the Ebola Virus Disease was taken to the hospital. Health officials in the hospital absconded as the patient, who was brought into the hospital in the early hours of the day, was seen bleeding from some parts of his body. Patients in the hospital also scampered for safety leaving the hospital deserted.

Efforts to get the state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, to confirm whether his officials took away the patient and who brought the patient proved abortive as he was said to have gone to Abuja with the state governor, Babatunde Fashola, to meet with President Goodluck Jonathan.