Liberia: Armed Men Attack Ebola Clinic “Liberate” Infected Patients

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An Ebola information poster is displayed on August 6, 2014 in a street of Monrovia, Liberia (AFP /Zoom Dosso)

Villagers don’t want outsiders in their town.

Armed men stormed an Ebola clinic in Liberia this week and liberated the infected patients. As many as 29 patients fled during the attack.
CBS News reported:

Armed men attacked an Ebola clinic in Monrovia, local witnesses told Agence France Presse.

As many as 29 potentially Ebola-infected patients fled, the news agency reported.

“They broke down the doors and looted the place. The patients all fled,” said Rebecca Wesseh, who witnessed the attack and whose report was confirmed by residents and the head of Health Workers Association of Liberian, George Williams.

The attack comes just one day after a report of a crowd of several hundred local residents, chanting, ‘No Ebola in West Point,’ drove away a burial team and their police escort that had come to collect the bodies of suspected Ebola victims in a slum in the capital, Reuters reports. The mob then forced open an Ebola isolation ward and took several patients out, many saying that the Ebola epidemic is a hoax.

The isolation center, a closed primary school originally built by USAID, was being used by the Liberian health ministry to temporarily isolate people suspected of carrying the virus, Reuters reports. Some 10 patients had “escaped” the building the night before, according to a nurse, as the center had no medicine to treat them.

While the armed attack is likely the most brazen attack on health workers trying to contain the deadly outbreak, it is far from the first in the region worst-hit by it.

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