Late Patrick Sawyer’s wife has
revealed her husband knew he had Ebola before travelling to Nigeria. Mrs Sawyer
said he died it because he wanted a better medical
attention in the country, knowing that Liberia was lacking in that. Here is what
she wrote on her Facebook page after saying she has read a lot about what
people call her husband’s ‘recklessness’ in the papers.
“I’ve read other reports in other papers (not the New York Times) about Patrick’s “recklessness.” I get where
they’re coming from, and they certainly have the right to feel the way they do.
However, as Patrick’s widow, I would like to shed some light on this from
another perspective. One that only I, his wife, would know,” she wrote.
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“I knew Patrick better than anybody
else (including himself). He had told me many times in the past how much he
didn’t trust the Liberian healthcare system. He would tell me
about how a person would get checked in for one thing, and get misdiagnosed and
get the wrong treatment as a result. On top of that, Patrick was a clean freak, and told me how
filthy a lot of the hospitals were.
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“He didn’t tell me this, but I know in my heart of hearts that Patrick was determined to get to Nigeria by all
means because he felt that Nigeria would be a place of refuge. He has expressed to
me many times in the past that he felt passionately about helping to be a part
of strengthening Liberia’s healthcare system, but he knew it
wasn’t there yet, and he wouldn’t want to take a chance with his life because a
lot of people depended on him… Patrick had a passion for
life, and he wouldn’t have wanted his to end. So, I bet anything that he was
thinking, if I could only get to Nigeria, a way more developed country than
Liberia, I would be able to get some help. How ironic.”
In other news, Late Patrick Sawyer’s friend,
Liberia’s deputy finance minister, Sebastian Omar, who cleared PatrickSawyer to travel, defended
himself against charges of incompetence for clearing Sawyer to travel to Nigeria for aconference.
He also said he owes no one any apology and why should he try to sop a
health practitioner like Sawyer, who should know what is
right.
