Pictured left is Denis, fiancé of late Justina Obi Ejeloni (right) who died after contracting Ebola from Late Patrick Sawyer. Denis was discharged this evening from the Ebola treatment centre in Lagos after his third test came out negative. He was given a clearance certificate, a top doctor who prefers anonymity told Sahara Reporters.
Denis was with his fiancé throughout her ordeal through to her death. He told SR that his fiancée lost a two-month pregnancy, vomited severally on him, collapsed and had to be carried to hospital by him. After, Justina was admitted he said he hung around the hospital, occasionally going into the Ebola ward to cater for her as nurses and doctors abandoned her to her fate at the treatment center.
He said he developed high temperature 14 days after the death of Justina and he immediately went to the Ebola treatment centre. An initial test led the center to quarantine him, and a second test came positive leading the center to admit him to treatment but this evening he was fully discharged after a third test carried out by international affiliates of the center came out negative. He becomes the 6th survivor of the deadly virus.
Justina attended to late Liberian Patrick Sawyer while he was ill at the First Consultant hospital in Lagos, has died from whom she contracted the virus. She died on August 14.
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