How Nigeria beat Ebola: Key lessons for Kenya as told by CS James Macharia

NAIROBI, KENYA: When Liberian-American Diplomat Patrick Sawyer landed in Lagos, Nigeria on July 20, 2014, he was visibly ill, having come from burying his sister who had died of Ebola in Liberia.

He collapsed at the airport and was taken to hospital, where he insisted that he only had malaria. Three days of malaria treatment had no effect and the admitting doctor and the hospital director detained Sawyer, in spite of threats from Liberian authorities, to run Ebola tests. Sawyer was confirmed to have Ebola and died shortly thereafter. The doctor who attended him, Dr Stella Adadavoh, also contracted the disease and died.