Ebola infected Center was attacked and patients fled

Armed men, who claimed that there is no Ebola in Liberia, attacked an isolation place for patients infected by the virus in Monrovia, causing the escape of about twenty patients.

“They forced the doors and plundered the center. All patients fled,” said Rebecca Wesseh, one witness to the incident occurred during the evening of Saturday 16th August to the Sunday 17th down.

The General Secretary of Health Workers in Liberia Georges Williams, said that 29 Ebola patients were isolated in the center and that nine of them died. He did not say how many fled.

According to Wesseh, the individuals, mostly young people, armed with batons, forcibly entered into the center installed in a school in a suburb of Monrovia. They came shouting, “Ellen (Johnson) Sirleaf (President of Liberia) is ruined. She wants money, there is no Ebola” In Liberia, said the witness. She said that the nurses fled too.