moment an Ebola patient who escaped quarantine in
search of food was recaptured and forced into the
back of a truck. The footage, broadcast by Sky News,
was captured in Monrovia, Liberia, in West Africa,
which is currently in the grip of an Ebola epidemic.
The man had escaped from Monrovia's Elwa
hospital, (which last month was so crowded with
cases of the deadly disease that it had to turn people
away), to visit a market. He was wearing a red shirt
and a wristband that told people he has tested
positive for Ebola. There were chaotic scenes as
crowds followed the infected man, and some
stallholders argued with him as he approached them.
Watch onlookers cheer when health workers finally
arrive in their protective outfits and try to convince
the patient to quietly give himself up. The man, who
showed no outward signs of the diarrhoea and
bleeding that the virus causes, refused to return with
the health workers and they eventually, roughly grab
him, bundle him into a waiting ambulance and carry
him away .
These are screenshots I made from the video. One
woman at the scene said:
"The patients are hungry, they are starving. No food,
no water. The government needs to do more. Let
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf [the President of Liberia] do
more."
At least 1,552 people have been killed by the current
Ebola outbreak, with 3,062 patients infected overall,
according to the latest figures from the World Health
Organization. The UN agency has warned that more
than 20,000 people could be infected with Ebola
before the outbreak comes to an end.
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