A survivor of the Ebola Virus Disease, Dennis Akagha, has said his late fiancée, Justina Ejelonu, has not been ‘duly recognised’ even though she sacrificed her life while caring for Nigeria’s index EVD case, Patrick Sawyer. According to Akagha, his late fiancée was a nurse at Lagos-based First Consultants Medical Centre, where Sawyer, an Ebola-positive Liberian diplomat, had visited when he arrived in Nigeria in July 2014. Justina’s boss, Dr. Ameyo Adadevoh, who was on duty the day Sawyer arrived the hospital, and who reportedly stopped Patient Zero from leaving the hospital, had been widely recognised upon her death in August 2014 after contracting the virus. Akagha, however, lamented that other players, including the pregnant Justina who also succumbed to the infection following her encounter with Sawyer, had remained unsung. Akagha had also contracted the virus from his pregnant fiancée but he later recovered. The data analyst tweeted on Wednesday, “Six years today, I found myself i...
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