She had reportedly treated a female Ebola patient brought overnight into the YED Community by her children after being pressurized to report to the Ebola Taskforce.
The late nurse, who was well known in the YED community in Mango Town, Central Virginia, was contacted by children of the infected woman so that she (the nurse) could administer some medication to their sick mother. In first contact, the nurse was told by the children that their mother had suffered from sugar and so they wanted her to be treated, which the nurse is said to have immediately begun.
However, it soon became clear that the medical history provided by the children was far from reality as their Mom had been infected with the Ebola Virus. She died a few days after. Relatives allegedly forged Death certificate for the woman and subsequently took the body away for burial the same day to an unknown location.
Subsequently, one of the deceased’s sons died of the virus followed by a second son, who became the third victim from the same family to have contracted the virus. He escaped the YED community to his former community overnight, but was rejected there since residents of the area already knew the mother’s health history.
However, on Tuesday this week, a convoy led by Montserrado County District 17 Representative William V. Dakel and the Ebola Taskforce entered the community after tip-off through phone calls about a man that had died of the Ebola Virus.
Tracing his family records, the dead man was one of the sons of the woman that died earlier of the virus. As the team reached the home of the dead victims’ the rest of the family members, including tenants fled, leaving the dead man at the front of the house. It was soon discovered that the fleeing family members were taken away by their church pastor to an unknown location.
Denial and refusal of some family members to report themselves after contracting the virus or call the taskforce to take them to the treatment centers are two key stumbling blocks to the ongoing Ebola fight across the country. http://www.thenewdawnliberia.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12562:ebola-kills-several-in-virginia-as-infected-family-flees&catid=25:politics&Itemid=59
