of a woman, who was said to have vomited and collapsed in premises of
the State Ministry of Health and was rejected in four different private
hospitals because of the text messages circulated by some unidentified people suspected to be in the Healthcare sector that tagged her Ebola patient.
On 20th August,2014, a 55-year-old health care worker
at Ogotun- Ekiti, who was said not to have had any complaints of
illness in the last two months and no current history of travel outside
the state (according to her neighbors) got to the Data Bank of the
Ministry of Health at about 1.pm and collapsed after coughing out blood
and subsequently vomited and she was immediately tagged Ebola victim
without an adequate history taken and people started running away.
“The woman subsequently died in the late evening. The unnecessary write-up through the social media
by some doctors in the state is uncalled for, and counter-productive
to the efforts of the state government in containing and curtailing the
spread of the virus.”
He also said a similar case at the NYSC Orientation camp in Ise Ekiti
where a young man who had been inadequately treated for malaria
collapsed and was abandoned by everybody including the camp’s healthcare
givers from 6am to 3pm when the state government intervened.
Prof Fasubaa appealed to doctors in the state to live up to their responsibilities and remember the Hippocratic oath they swore to. He stressed that not all patients that have fever or vomiting have Ebola.
