Late Patrick Sawyer’s wife has revealed her husband knew he
had Ebola before travelling to Nigeria. Mrs Sawyer said he died it because he
wanted a better medical attention in the country, knowing that Liberia was
lacking in that. Here is what she wrote on her Facebook page after saying she
has read a lot about what people call her husband’s ‘recklessness’ in the
papers.
“I’ve read other reports in other papers (not the New York
Times) about Patrick’s “recklessness.” I get where they’re coming from, and
they certainly have the right to feel the way they do. However, as Patrick’s
widow, I would like to shed some light on this from another perspective. One
that only I, his wife, would know,” she wrote. Continue below...
“I knew Patrick better than anybody else (including
himself). He had told me many times in the past how much he didn’t trust the
Liberian healthcare system. He would tell me about how a person would get
checked in for one thing, and get misdiagnosed and get the wrong treatment as a
result. On top of that, Patrick was a clean freak, and told me how filthy a lot
of the hospitals were.
“He didn’t tell me this, but I know in my heart of hearts
that Patrick was determined to get to Nigeria by all means because he felt that
Nigeria would be a place of refuge. He has expressed to me many times in the
past that he felt passionately about helping to be a part of strengthening
Liberia’s healthcare system, but he knew it wasn’t there yet, and he wouldn’t
want to take a chance with his life because a lot of people depended on him…
Patrick had a passion for life, and he wouldn’t have wanted his to end. So, I
bet anything that he was thinking, if I could only get to Nigeria, a way more
developed country than Liberia, I would be able to get some help. How ironic.”
In other news, Late Patrick Sawyer’s friend, Liberia’s
deputy finance minister, Sebastian Omar, who cleared Patrick Sawyer to travel, defended
himself against charges of incompetence for clearing Sawyer to travel to
Nigeria for a conference.
He also said he owes no one any apology and why should he try to stop a health practitioner like Sawyer, who should know what is right.
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