Looking to get to the bottom of Sawyer’s strange ailment on the Asky Airline flight, which Sawyer transferred on in Togo, hospital officials say, he was tested for both malaria and HIV AIDS.
However, when both tests came back negative, he was then asked whether he had made contact with any person with the Ebola Virus, to which Sawyer denied. Sawyer’s sister, Princess had died of the deadly virus on Monday, July 7, 2014 at the Catholic Hospital in Monrovia. On Friday, July 25, 2014, 18 days later, Sawyer died in Lagos.
Back in Lagos, authorities at the First Consultants Hospital in Obalende decided that despite Sawyer’s denial, they would test him for Ebola, due to the fact that he had just arrived from Liberia, where there has been an outbreak of the disease with more than 100 deaths.
The hospital issued a statement this week stating that Sawyer was quarantined immediately after he was discovered to have been infected with the deadly virus.
In addition, a barrier nursing was implemented around Sawyer and the Lagos State Ministry of Health was immediately notified. Hospital authorities also requested the Federal Ministry of Health for additional laboratory test based on its suspicion of Ebola
The hospital would later report that it resisted immense pressure to let out Sawyer from its hospital against the insistence from some higher-ups and conference organizers that he had a key role to play at the ECOWAS convention in Calabar, the Cross River State capital.
In fact, FrontPageAfrica has been informed that officials in Monrovia were in negotiations with ECOWAS to have Sawyer flown back to Liberia.
What's not being reported is that Sawyer was a belligerent patient whose behavior placed the Lagos hospital workers at greater risk. According to allAfrica, he was asked whether he had been in close contact with someone with Ebola and he denied it, despite having cared for his dying sister. At the Monrovia hospital where his sister was treated, staff noted he had her blood on his clothing. Despite all of this, he was adamant about attending the conference.
After being told he tested positive at the Lagos hospital, Sawyer "was so adamant and difficult that he took the tubes from his body and took off his pants and urinated on the health workers, forcing them to flee."
Sawyer is Typhoid Mary. Because of him a doctor is infected and a nurse is dead. Eight others who came in contact with him are showing signs of the disease. Had he not died, it is likely he would have boarded a flight back to Minnesota, symptoms and all.