Justina Ejelonu…Nigerians plead for the Ebola vaccine to save her life
Friends of the Nigerian nurse infected with the Ebola virus while treating the Liberian America, Sawyer who took the disease to Nigeria have dismissed reports that the nurse who escaped from the Lagos Ebola Quarantine Centre was Justina Ejelonu. In a release made available to www.Africanewscircle.com, Justina’s friends also condemned the state of the Lagos Quarantine Centre fearing that it may force inmates to seek help from churches and relations thereby spreading the dreaded virus the more.
“We can confirm that Nurse Justina was not the person being referred to because we have active contact with her. As recent as 20mins before typing this note we were in contact with her at the quarantine location in Lagos. Ignore the malicious rumor that she is the one being referred to in the report by The Nation Newspaper”, the statement read.
The statement further held that “Nurse Justina is holding out well and has shown improvements because of your prayers and support. She is aware that majority of Nigerians are praying for her and others to make it. And we are believing God that she will make it.”
It further described the substantive report in The Nation Newspaper, as also published by Sahara Reporters, as“exactly the type of doomsday scenario painted and which we warned about earlier”.The statement further warned: “If Justina and others in quarantine don’t survive, most Nigerians will avoid quarantine and resort to prayer houses and juju priests. Again, if quarantine locations are not made better with modern facilities, many more will “skip” and join the general population. That can only spell DISASTER of monumental proportion.
The authorities must deliver the experimental drugs to those in quarantine, give them oxygen, essential drugs for the associated symptoms and make the location more habitable with power, water and other essentials. Quarantine locations should not approximate to “awaiting death” facilities otherwise Nigeria will pay dearly. People need to go in and come out alive to convince others to follow that logical and sane path.”
“Once more, we wish to state that Justina Obi Ejelonu is currently at the quarantine facility waiting for the experimental drugs that WHO has approved, Canada donated and Nigerian government accepted to deploy. She needs those drugs TODAY and if she doesn’t get them, alongside her other colleagues in quarantine, it simply means Nigerian state have failed them. Society normally pays for such failures.”
Those managing the Nigerian state will be held responsible at all levels of government if those in quarantine continue to die because we have not provided adequate life saving care for them in a decent and expeditious manner. Since they were taken in early in the infection cycle, they are expected to make it out alive with good management. Even without experimental drugs”, the statement concluded.
Meanwhile, friends of Nurse Justina have continued with their unrelenting social media campaign to ensure that she and other Nigerians infected with the Ebloa virus get adequate medical support with the message: #GiveThemExperimentalDrugs NOW.
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