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 SaharaReporters
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 outdpoken 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.
(Sahara Reporters)
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