Dr. Ada Igonoh was one of the attending doctors at First Consultants Hospital and had seen to Patrick Sawyer while being monitored and overseen by Dr Ameyo Adedovoh, her consultant. Dr Ameyo died several weeks ago from being infected by Patrick Sawyer. Dr Ada Igonoh also got infected but survived. She tells her emotional story of escaping the shadow of death to BellaNaija.
On the night of Sunday July 20, 2014, Patrick Sawyer was wheeled into the Emergency Room at First Consultants Medical Centre, Obalende, Lagos, with complaints of fever and body weakness. The male doctor on call admitted him as a case of malaria and took a full history. Knowing that Mr. Sawyer had recently arrived from Liberia, the doctor asked if he had been in contact with an Ebola patient in the last couple of weeks, and Mr. Sawyer denied any such contact.
He also denied attending any funeral ceremony recently. Blood samples were taken for full blood count, malaria parasites, liver function test and other baseline investigations. He was admitted into a private room and started on antimalarial drugs and analgesics. That night, the full blood count result came back as normal and not indicative of infection.
