Ebola: Health workers scared, flee Lagos Isolation ward

Health workers at the Yaba Mainland Hospital, Lagos have been running away from patients isolated in the hospital.Punch reports.Some of them are already avoiding the patients like a plague. Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris said

“Because of the fear of Ebola, everybody seems to be scared, nobody wants to assist, which is a major challenge.It is even more so for the treatment isolation ward. It’s a major problem because a lot of people ran away, especially when the nurse died.”
A senior medical practioner at the hospital said .....


The pressure is too much for us; we have been working for 24 hours instead of the statutory eight hours because of inadequate manpower as a result of the ongoing doctors’ strike and other health workers that have been reluctant to move near the