29 patients flee as armed men attack Ebola camp in Liberia

Seventeen patients infected with Ebola were unaccounted for on Sunday after they fled an armed raid on a quarantine centre in Monrovia by men who claimed the epidemic is a fiction.

“They broke down the door and looted the place. The patients have all gone”, verbalized Rebecca Wesseh, who witnessed the assailment on the outskirts of the Liberian capital.

According to AFP, her report was substantiated by residents and the head of Health Workers Association of Liberia, George Williams.

Williams verbally expressed the unit housed 29 patients who “had all tested positive for Ebola” and were receiving preliminary treatment afore being taken to hospital.

“Of the 29 patients, 17 fled last night (after the assault). Nine died four days ago and three others were yesterday (Saturday) taken perforce by their relatives from the centre”, he verbalized.

The assailers, mostly puerile men armed with clubs, shouted that President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf “is broke” and “there’s no Ebola” in Liberia as they broke into the unit in a Monrovia suburb, Wesseh verbalized.

Residents had opposed the engenderment of the centre, set up by health ascendant entities in part of the city considered an epicentre of the Ebola outbreak in the Liberian capital.

“We told them not to (build) their camp here. They didn’t heedfully auricularly discern us,” verbalized a puerile resident, who declined to give his denomination.