Late PH doctor knew diplomat had Ebola Virus – Rivers State Govt

At a press conference on Friday evening August
29th, Rivers State Commissioner for Health, Dr.
Samson Parker, said that late Dr. Iyke Enemou, who
treated ECOWAS diplomat Olu Koye (pictured above)
, was aware that Mr Koye had the Ebola Virus
Disease.
"He had received the late Dr. Patrick Sawyer in
Lagos. Upon developing the symptom, confided in a
female colleague, called Lilian, who contacted the
late Enemuo. It was after contact was established
with Dr. Enemuo that Olu Koye flew to Port Harcourt
to see him. To conceal his movement, Koye, who had
been quarantined among other people for having
primary contact with the late Dr. Sawyer, the
Liberian-American who transmuted the Ebola virus
into Nigeria, sneaked out of the isolation unit where
he was being observed and took a flight to Port
Harcourt and switched off his phone so that he could
not be reached or traced should he answer a call."
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When he got to Port Harcourt, he checked into
Mandate Gardens Hotel in the Rumunokoro area in
Obio/Akpor LGA which is close to Sam Steel Clinic
where Dr. Enemuo worked.
"From what we have gathered so far, Dr. Enemuo,
knowing that Koye was positive of the Ebola virus
took some measures of precaution to protect himself
while treating Koye.
"Knowing the enormity of what he was doing,
Enemuo upon Koye's departure for Lagos, poured
bleach all over the room that Koye slept in order to
sanitise the place."
The commissioner revealed that Dr Enemuo, after
falling ill, asked another doctor at Good Heart
Hospital along Evo Road in G.R.A. to treat him, but
at no point did Dr Enemuo tell his colleague that he
may have contracted the Ebola virus, instead he lied
that he had fever.
"He lied. He did not tell the doctor that was treating
him his full story. But the doctor, a nice and
conscientious professional, suspected that Enemuo
was either hiding something or was suffering from a
strange ailment because he proved negative to
malaria, fever and typhoid fever.
"To be sure of what he was doing, he spoke to other
very experienced doctors about the strange case he
was handling in his hospital."
The commissioner said the doctor treating Enemuo
even invited some other doctors to come over to his
hospital to see if they could understand Enemuo's
strange illness but no doctor came.
Dr. Enemuo's health deteriorated until he died on
August 22nd after which his body was taken to the
University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital.

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