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.
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