Ebola: Another Nurse Who Had Contact With Late Sawyer Dies In Lagos

Obi Justina Ejelonu, a nurse who attended to Patrick Sawyer, a Liberian-American Ebola carrier who flew to Nigeria on his way to attend a conference in Calabar, has died. Her relatives rang Sahara Reporters moments ago with news that she passed away this morning. Ms. Ejelonu had been kept in a quarantine facility in Lagos.

 

Until her death, the outspoken nurse was at the center of a campaign to get the Zmapp experimental drugs to Ebola victims in Nigeria. John Okiyi-Kalu started the Internet campaign a few days ago.

Ms. Ejelonu was one of the primary contacts with Patrick Sawyer at a Lagos Hospital where he received treatment after he was rushed from the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos where he collapsed. She was aged 25, her relatives said. So sad..RIP, This is making 4 deaths in total since the crises hit Nigeria.