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.
-saharareporters
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