Ebola: Monrovia Isolated Clinic Raided By Armed Gang
Category: World News
SEVENTEEN patients infected with
Ebola are unaccounted for after fleeing an armed raid on a quarantine
centre in Monrovia by men who claim the epidemic is a fiction, News.com.au reports.
According to an eye-witness account, “They broke down the door and looted the place. The patients have all gone".
The report was confirmed by residents and the head of Health Workers Association of Liberia, George Williams.
Williams said on Sunday that the unit housed 29 patients who “had all
tested positive for Ebola” and were receiving preliminary treatment
before being taken to hospital.
“Of the 29 patients, 17 fled last night (after the assault). Nine died four days ago and three others were yesterday (Saturday) taken by force by their relatives” from the centre, he said.
The attackers, mostly young men armed with clubs, shouted that President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf “is broke” and “there’s no Ebola” in Liberia as they broke into the unit in a Monrovia suburb, Wesseh said.
Residents had opposed the creation of the centre, set up by health
authorities in part of the city considered an epicentre of the Ebola
outbreak in the Liberian capital.
“We told them not to (build) their camp here. They didn’t listen to us,” said a young resident, who declined to give his name.
“We don’t believe in this Ebola outbreak.”
The
Ebola outbreak, the worst since the virus first appeared in 1976, has
claimed 1145 lives in five months, according to the UN World Health
Organisation’s latest figures as of August 13: 413 in Liberia, 380 in
Guinea, 348 in Sierra Leone and four in Nigeria.
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| Persuasive ... residents tell patients in an Ebola isolation in Monrovia, Liberia, to escape. Picture: Getty Source: Getty Images |
According to an eye-witness account, “They broke down the door and looted the place. The patients have all gone".
The report was confirmed by residents and the head of Health Workers Association of Liberia, George Williams.
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| On the run ... a family flees an Ebola isolation centre in Monrovia, Liberia, after a mob forced open the gates. Picture: Getty Source: Getty Images |
“Of the 29 patients, 17 fled last night (after the assault). Nine died four days ago and three others were yesterday (Saturday) taken by force by their relatives” from the centre, he said.
The attackers, mostly young men armed with clubs, shouted that President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf “is broke” and “there’s no Ebola” in Liberia as they broke into the unit in a Monrovia suburb, Wesseh said.
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| Escape ... a man carries out a girl from an Ebola isolation centre as a mob overruns the facility in the West Point slum in Monrovia, Liberia. Picture: Getty Source: Getty Images |
“We told them not to (build) their camp here. They didn’t listen to us,” said a young resident, who declined to give his name.
“We don’t believe in this Ebola outbreak.”
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| Protest ... hundreds of people in Monrovia’s West Point slum mob an Ebola burial team who were trying to collect the bodies of four people who had died overnight. Picture: Getty Source: Getty Images |
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Stand off ... Liberian policemen
dressed in riot gear disperse protesters who blocked a main road after
the body of someone suspected of dying from the Ebola virus was not
removed by health workers in Monrovia, Liberia. Picture: AP
Source: AP
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