A Nigerian passenger who was about boarding an Arik Air flight back
to Accra, Ghana slumped and died moments after undergoing a screening to
ascertain his Ebola virus status.
According to daily sun, the incident occurred at the international wing
of the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Ikeja, Lagos. But the result later
indicated he was Ebola negative.
The death of the passenger whose name was given as Mr. Akunne Osei,
created panic among other passengers and health care workers that
another Ebola virus victim had died at the airport and might have
infected the few persons that had come in contact with him.
The death of this Nigerian passenger caused a very serious
pandemonium at the airport as people ran for their lives leaving the
corpse to lie unattended to for several hours for fear that the deceased
would have been killed by Ebola virus.
One of the eye witnesses, who spoke on condition of annonymity, told
journalists that the reason people scampered to safety and left the
body unattended to was because they lacked the necessary kits that would
enable them make contact with the corpse.
Yakubu Dati, spokesperson for the Federal Airport Authority of
Nigeria (FAAN) however debunked the rumours which had spread very fast
around the airport environment. Osie, according to Dati, had died from
other sicknesses and not the dreaded Ebola virus.
Dati said investigations carried out by agencies at the airport on
this passenger revealed that he had been sick since last Saturday upon
arriving the country, a situation that informed his decision to fly back
to Ghana on the orders of his Ghanaian-based doctors for further
medical examination
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