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Madam Sawyer ,inset,her two children who died as a result of Ebola |
Heartbroken mother of Mr Patrick Sawyer, the
40-year-old man, who brought Ebola to Nigeria is demanding the ashes of his
cremated son.
Sawyer’s remains were burnt after his death
of Ebola in Lagos on July 25.
“I can’t stand it,”. “I can’t sleep. Every
day I think about them,” Georgia Nah, told NBC 10 at her Southwest Philly home,
United States.
Sawyer became ill just a few weeks after
rushing to the bedside of his sick sister, 27-year-old Princess Nyuennyue, who
was hospitalized in early July in Liberia, where she lived with her fiancée and
son.
“I didn’t even know she was sick,” said
Nah as she choked back tears.
Nyuennyue died July 7-- one day after her
brother visited her.
But hospital officials did not test the woman
for Ebola until after her death – meaning her brother had no way of knowing he
was exposed to the virus.
About two weeks after his sister’s death,
Sawyer -- in Liberia since 2008 for his work with the foreign government’s
Ministry of Finance -- was sent to Nigeria on assignment.
He collapsed as the plane touched down July
20 and was rushed to a hospital, where he was quarantined until his death five
days later. He left behind a wife and three daughters, who he visited regularly
at their home in Minnesota.
“My children were good children,” Nah said.
Nyennetue was buried in Liberia. But more
than two weeks after Sawyer’s death, his family is still working to have his
ashes returned to the states.
“At least send me something,” Nah said. “To
know that here are the death certificates, the results of the Ebola. I don’t
have anything.”
A memorial service for Patrick and his sister
will be held in Philadelphia, United States on August 23.
Nearly 1,000 people have died so far in West
Africa in what is believed to be the worst outbreak of Ebola in history.
May God console this woman,it is really traumatic,except that Nigerians cannot forgive her son for bringing Ebola to our Land. Why didn't he travel to the US? Where they would have carried out a quick research to save him,since they know about the virus.
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