Obi Justina Ejelonu, one of the nurses 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
SaharaReporters today 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
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