Go there yourself and witness firsthand the condition under which they are constantly dealt with," Dr. Helen Boyo-Ekwueme charged at one of the writers asking about the welfare of the wellbeing specialists fighting with Ebola, at the Infectious Diseases Hospital, Yaba, Lagos.
The environment was strained. Relatives and expert partners of the female therapeutic specialist and other wellbeing specialists, who gotten the infection from the late Liberian-American, Patrick Sawyer, had accumulated to short writers at a public interview which held in Ikoyi, Lagos.
Boyo-Ekwueme, a pathologist, and one of the concerned relatives continued laying accentuation on the way that the female restorative specialist should not be left to pass on.
•source: UNICEF
•source: UNICEF
Noting that the public interview was not called to exchange accuses with the Federal Government or the Lagos State Government, she painted a picture of absolute disregard of the female specialist and her therapeutic partners who have been put in segregation at the IDH.
The pathologist who asserted to have been to the IDH in organization with other relatives and expert partners affirmed that the Ebola patients were not been legitimately taken care of.
Contending that fitting essential treatment and resistant boosting medications that might be of assistance to the patients were by and large needing, she reasoned that just "worldwide help" could make them carry on a little more.
She mourned, "We are not battling anyone. We are essentially offering voice to the voiceless. Those individuals in seclusion at the IDH can't voice out these concerns. Give them a chance to have fundamental treatment. It shouldn't be as though we simply remained there and relinquish them and watch them bite the dust one by one.
"They are people. That female specialist is a devoted Nigerian and she needs to be made a difference. You individuals (columnists) ought to go there and see the surroundings where they are, no doubt treated. You would think about whether these are individuals who still have relatives.
"They are simply being left on their own. No one is advising them. They are only there as though they have been overlooked. We ought to recollect that they didn't ask to contract Ebola and it can happen to anyone. We are engaging for universal help for these wellbeing specialists."
Representative for the gathering of seven concerned relatives and associates of the Ebola victimized people, Dr. Ladi Okuboyejo, buttressed Boyo-Ekwueme's cases expressing that individuals including restorative work force conveyed were currently fleeing from the debilitated victimized people.
Clarifying that the Ebola episode was past the limit of the startling Nigerian doctors, Okuboyejo demanded that the conditions under which the Ebola victimized people were being taken care of was horrifying.
Okuboyejo, a medicinal expert, expressed that there was a deficiency of imperative medications and fundamental restorative supplies required by the victimized people including that the poor general clean state of the detachment office was contemptible.
"On the off chance that a wellbeing office doesn't have light, doesn't have water and the clean framework is not living up to expectations legitimately then we have got an issue. Presently the patients are discriminatingly sick and their condition is deteriorating by day. Individuals, including some medicinal staff, are presently fleeing from them.
"Without a doubt the illness is past our ability to handle in this nation. The worldwide group needs to ascend to our help. The exploited people are not being appropriately treated. Disregard that the Nigeria Medical Association is on strike, we can't deal with it," he expressed.
Yet as the concerned partners of the Ebola exploited people deplored the state of undertakings with their affections ones at the question and answer session, a nearby family source trusted in one of our reporters that the American specialist had been the one specifically paying for the buy of fundamental medicinal supplies for the victimized people.
The family source who favored namelessness expressed that a long arrangement of medicinal and general need things exhibited to the powers by the remote doctor had yet to be supplied.
"Where is the $12m the Federal Government said it discharged to battle Ebola. Keep in mind that the lady and the ECOWAS convention officer are as of now dead. Do they need every one of them to begin biting the dust one after the other," the source included.
As they alternated to address writers, an alternate prompt relative of one of the patients, Deji Akinyanju, attracted the amplifiers to himself and started his own particular round of grievance.
Akinyanju who declined to name her sickly relative, expressed that the criticisms he has got from the segregation focus demonstrated that the Ebola victimized people's wellbeing was quick weakening.
He asserted that the Nigerian doctors working with the American WHO master were those with next to zero encounter in dealing with the exceedingly infectious malady.
With a note of disillusionment in his voice, Akinyanju, who said he had been going to his basically sick relative at the IDH expressed, that the WHO master have additionally highlighted the requirement for more accomplished hands to help rescue what stays of the wellbeing of the segregated wellbeing laborers.
"There is a requirement for more medicinal faculty that will help take care of them. Certain safe promoter could likewise have been effortlessly given to them. We are simply concerned relatives. Anyway from what we have seen we think increasingly is possible to help them," Akinyanju said.
At the point when reached, the Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, was distracted for remarks.
His phone line rang out when one of our reporter reached him. Likewise, a quick message sent to him, was not answered to as at press time on Thursday
