- Published: 11 July 2014
Monrovia - Angry
family members of a pregnant woman who died as a result of the deadly
Ebola virus protested Friday at Liberia’s referral John F. Kennedy
Medical Center, demanding the corpse of their family member.
A senior hospital source told FrontPageAfrica that the woman was rushed to the hospital from the New Kru Town community located on the Bushrod Island, a suburb of Monrovia, one of the communities highly hit by the outbreak of the virus.
The source said the lady died at the JFK hospital and while the Ebola Response team was preparing to take delivery of the body, family members resisted a situation that needed the intervention of the Liberian National Police. Family members claimed that their relative did not die as a consequence of the virus and therefore wanted the body to give their dead a befitting burial.
Following hours of tussle, the police calmed the situation and test later confirmed that the lady died of Ebola. Another second victim was also confirmed dead as a result of the virus at the same hospital. New Kru Town, is one of the communities where cases of Ebola were reported and a nurse Esther Kesselly died while attending to a patient.
The Redemption Hospital located the community nearly shut down after nurses protested unsafe working environment following the death of their colleague. After the death of the Nurse another foreign medical practitioner, Ugandan died as a result of Ebola. The epidemic is spreading fast across Liberia with Lofa and Montserrado counties having more cases than any other part of the country.
