Monday, 11 August 2014

SHOCK HIT LAGOS AIRPOT AS PASSENGER SLUMP AND DIED

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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