Fiance of Late Nurse Justina, Discharged From Treatment Center

The fiancé of a nurse who died of Ebola has been discharged from the Ebola treatment center in Lagos yesterday after his third test came out negative. Dennis, who was late Justina Obi Ejelonu’s fiancé had been quarantined and later admitted into treatment after two tests confirmed that he was positive.

However, Dennis was discharged from the treatment center with a certificate of clearance yesterday. He walked off the center in good health according to doctors who spoke anonymously with Sahara reporters.

A second spouse of a deceased doctor who had primary contact with Liberian -American Thomas Sawyer who was admitted yesterday with Dennis remains hospitalized at the center, currently undergoing treatment.

Dennis story is a powerful one, he refused to abandon his fiancé despite her being diagnosed with Ebola. 

He told Sahara reporters that Justina lost a two-month pregnancy, vomited severally on him while she collapsed and had to be carried to hospital by him. After, Justina was admitted he hung around the hospital, occasionally going into the Ebola ward cater for her as nurses and doctors abandoned the nurse to her fate at the treatment center. Fourteen days after Justina died, Dennis had high temperature, and instead of panicking he turned himself in to the treatment center for observation. An initial test led the center to quarantine him, and a second test came positive leading the center to admit him to treatment but was fully discharged after a third test carried out by international affiliates of the center came out negative.