In an interview last month, the 39yr old doctor had expressed fears for his life because of his constant contact with Ebola patients.
"I am afraid for my life. Health workers are prone to the disease because we are the first port of call for somebody who is sickened by the disease. Even with the full protective clothing you put on, you are at risk" He told ReutersHis death comes days after a senior doctor at Liberia's largest hospital, Samuel Brisbane, died on Saturday at an Ebola treatment centre in Monrovia. 3 nurses working in the same Ebola treatment centre alongside Khan also died from the disease last week. Several other medics have been infected.
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May God help us with this Ebola virus of a thing
Wow! What a sad news.........I now carry morning fresh dettol and bottle water in ma hand bag! Ndu adiro 2. Biko. Rest in peace doc.........u try
Oh mine!!!.This indeed is a plague. God please help your faithful ones.
Gosh! This is terrible. Lord, keep this away from reaching us.
May God have mercy!
What more can one say????
May his soul RIP. ... this is very sad
oh my God, may his soul rest in peace
Ebola is too bad. LIB Princess! Pretex4luv@yahoo.com
Pls God protect us, may his soul rest in peace
God please have mercy. This is sooo sad, how I wish it was just one bad dream . Rip for the souls lost so far to this horrible disease.
God help us....may d souls of d departed rest in peace Amen.
OMG! God have mercy over this new invented virus. Don't let it come near my family and friends back home. Wipe it out of this generation oh Lord.
Very soon medical workers will be running away from Ebola patients.
I really feel for the man...His bravery and selflessness are some of the things lacking in most of our doctors here in Nigeria.
God pls help u all, dis is becoming disturbing. ~AUCHI GIRL~
his reward is in heaven
In order to help our Embassy Community better understand some of the key points about the Ebola virus we have consulted with our medical specialists at the U S State Department and assembled this list of bullet points worded in plain language for easy comprehension. Our medical specialists remind everyone that they should be following the guideline from the center for Disease Control and the World Health Organisation.
• The suspected reservoirs for Ebola are fruit bats.
• Transmission to humans is thought to originate from infected bats or primates that have become infected by bats.
• Undercooked infected bat and primate (bush) meat transmits the virus to humans.
• Human to human transmission is only achieved by physical contact with a person who is acutely and gravely ill from the Ebola virus or their body fluids.
• Transmission among humans is almost exclusively among caregiver family members or health care workers tending to the very ill.
• The virus is easily killed by contact with soap, bleach, sunlight, or drying. A washing machine will kill the virus in clothing saturated with infected body fluids.
• A person can incubate the virus without symptoms for 2-21 days, the average being 5-8 days before becoming ill. THEY ARE NOT CONTAGIOUS until they are acutely ill.
• Only when ill does the viral load express itself first in the blood and then in other bodily fluids (to include vomit, feces, urine, breast milk, semen and sweat).
• If you are walking around you are not infectious to others.
• There are documented cases from Kikwit, DRC of an Ebola outbreak in a village that had the custom of children never touching an ill adult. Children living for days in small one room huts with parents who died from Ebola did not become infected.
• You cannot contract Ebola by handling money, buying local bread or swimming in a pool.
• There is no medical reason to stop flights, close borders, restrict travel or close embassies, businesses or schools.
• As always practice good hand washing techniques, but you will not contract Ebola if you do not touch a dying person.
• US EMBASSY
Please share this information with your friends and families and try not to spread panic on social media.
Thanks
God save us Amen
And bless him for the lives he tried to save
Na wa oooo.RIP.
God have mercy on the world you sent your son to come and die for our sins pls God this there shall be cure in Jesus name I pray. RIP Doc.
He's truely a hero
May his soul rest in peace..amen!!
Indeed a hero....keep resting in peace dear doctor wilfranky@yahoo.com
RIP sir. flexwitht@yahoo.com
This ebola is something else,RIP
GOD HLP US
Oh no...to bad n rip doctor.
Nawaoo,God hv mercy on us all,pls its time we all began to ask God for forgiveness n his mercy alone.repent for d kingdom of God is at hand
lord hav mercy@ mimilasshi
R I P my hero, u made a name for your self and every one out here who care for humanity.
Rest in peace Dr Khan. You did what you were able to do to save lives from this deadly disease. Sierra Leone will miss you.
That means there must be other ways of contracting dis deadly disease apart from physical contact. More research need 2 be done, but d problem is who are dose dat will put deir lives in danger when all d doctors and nurses re dying... D cure 2 all dese untreatable illness may be in one of dose babies dat av bin aborted years ago. Pls ladies stop Abortion d world needs dem. African princess#
Rest in peace Dr Khan. You did what you were able to do to save lives.Sierra Leone will miss you. You are a hero.
God forbid bad thing. .. D world is really coming to an end
God please save us. Osimenaugustine@yahoo.com
this is getting serious
Nawa o. cynthianzeako@yahoo.com
he died as a result of prolong exposure to patients even tho he wore a protective covering. RIp
wonderful
BORN TO SHINE!!!!
that's painful rather...
sad
BORN TO SHINE!!!!
A hero indeed. Rest in d bosom of d Lord n receive ur reward bro. AIG
Hmmm. Dis is horrible. And a doctor is paid just 5k for hazard allowance here in nigeria. May his soul RIP. God saw ur passion 2 hlp d sick
God pls hear the cry of ur people, take away this wicked infection from ur people. btw this ebola tins is more dangerous than aids o!
Jesus! Within a week????? This Ebola is serious o....HIV come dey make sense for my eye...
May he rest in peace!!!
He don set.....pray the whole liberia doesnt get wiped out ooo.....#corleone
Cheiiii May God accept his soul Amen
Hats off to doctor. Echinwa
Dis virus is so deadly even wit protective gloves. God pls help ur children.victoriaimevbore@gmail.com
Rip to them
Na wao! Ds thng shd nt spread in Nigeria pls!
What a disease, this is end time
Eyaaaa! May he rest in. Peace
XDON D DON
may God help us here in nigeria, dis thin nobi small thin ooo
eyaaahhh!! may his soul RIP. smh I'm here crying this is so sad...especially for those who are trying to help get rid of this. They are really vital to eliminating this disease. Dear God we cannot lose them. TEARS
To me, this is the true definition of a hero:So selfless. Your reward awaits you in heaven. RIP
Am sooooooo scared, buh he dat is in me is greater Dan he dat is in d world. (rebeccamichaels@gmail.com
rip to him .henry_ogb@yahoo.co.uk
May dey rest in peace,amen. I wonder how much they receives as hazard allowance and who takes care of their family. Hazard allowance in Naija is N5000 yet ppl seats in senate with fat salaries only to tell u remember ur oath ooo!
Lord plz have mercy#so scared#
nbdy is safe again o
To bad...rest in peace hero...
Don't Panic, No Nigerian is Infected With Ebola Virus- Lagos Government...Click to Read
Linda if u like eat this comment
End time is here..... Give ur life to christ now bcoz tomorrow might b too late.
Oh God of mercy. We r really domed
Chaai
truely a national hero..he uphold his oath to save lives...wonder how many 9ja doctors can do that..oh i forgot..they r on strike.. chemicalx52003@yahoo.com
Am sooooooo scared, buh he dat is in me is greater Dan he dat is in d world. (rebeccamichaels@gmail.com
What a selfless service
May their souls rest in perfect peace, Amen
Brave man..ebola patients will stop receiving treatment soon because the doctors will begin to fear for their own lives..
This so sad, rest is peace
I'm a doctor and mhen, ds is wa we face daily. RiP bro. Angels receive u..
Ebola is demonic is an endtym disease. Nigerians shud pray, plz everyone #SayAprayerForNigeria
RIP
Chia! God save ur children. LIB Princess! Pretex4luv@yahoo.com
dis ebola disease sound like yoruba name abi na yoruba disease? anyways God help us ooo.#THAT AKWA IBOM BOY#
Lord have mercy
Pls what is this. ,what does dis disease want from us to kill everyone ,nawaoh #bebo#
it is well.....
Matthewbowei@yahoo.com
Lord have mercy,with all the covering,an d my griend was part of the people that evacuated the lagos state victim died of Ebola diseases,am scared my self,sandy berry s.imoh@yahoo.com
Omg!! This is serious o! Am really very saddened. Rip doctor
Wat a pity, HIV na luk like malaria, getting it cure with paracetamol.
Wat a pity, HIV na luk like malaria, getting it cure with paracetamol.
Dis disease is even worse than aids, despite his protective clothing. Hope writing abwt d disease doesn't put u in such risk. If not Linlin u'll check urself.Lol just kidding. -crème de la crème-
RIP to the dead medics!
This scenario categorically explains one of the 24point agenda that NMA wants addressed: Hazard allowance.
To all those blinded JOHESU members who have been misleading the public, saying that Doctors aren't exposed to Hazards.
Secondly, to those who feel that Doctors are overpaid, my question is will you expose yourself to a Lassar fever/Ebola virus disease patient for N5k hazard allowance?
These and a lot more constitutes the issues that face us.
Congratulations to the FMOH for making effort and finally getting to quarantine @ least 59 people who made contact with late Mr. Sawyer.
I just hope they didn't spread it in Calabar sha
May their souls rest in peace till we meet to part no more.
Wahala dey ooo, what on earth caused this deadly outbreak, am sure someone is using africans as lab rats again, damm!
I can't believe no comment since? OH! it's not those stupid junk or Rhianna news... SMH
@post Dr, I hope your name will be remembered forever.
My God! This is worse dan boko haram,lord save ur pple
##### LIB MY BAD MY HABIT#####
Hmmmm.wat a pity!savin lives n...
God have mercy! RIP Man, your indeed a HERO.
Lord have mercy on us. Chitimcreativ@yahoo.com
mehn ds one is a plaque.God help us.nonye
Tragic
May his soul rest in peace.
U now see why doctors need better reward...live n die for humanity but r often neglected
Pls is there anyone that was infected with dis sickness that got cured?
Pls is there anyone that was infected with dis sickness that got cured? May their soul RIP
Things we doctors do to save lives. Now he has laid down his life so others can live. Who can really reward doctors for their selfless services??. Nigerian government please think again..
Na waoh! God please remove this virus . Now medics will be afraid to help people trobule dey oooh.
No one is safe.Na God hand we dey.RIP DOC.
This is really terrible may God help us all. Rest in peace young man.
Frm Zion de great
RIP. I need a sugar daddy. LIB princess! pretex4luv@yahoo.com
He is a hero who gave hie life for others......God will reward him
Na wa ohj
MAY GOD HELP US IN DIS WROLD............... AND MAY DERE SOULS R.I.P...
Gosh!!! Laugh out low*straight face* Sign of Wrath of GOD. hun! Lesbian,gay,same sex marriage,Human&Animal sex. Ok now! Ain't see nada. If God dey punish sinners innocent must chop small, OH LORD FORGIVE US INNOCENT ONES IN YOUR MERCY... GOD OF LOVE!!!!!! PLSssssssss forgive us.
MAY GOD HELP US IN DIS WORLD OOOOO
Only someone with respect for life will be doing what he did,,,,,,,may his soul rest well. Irebisibrown@yahoo.com.sg
MAY GOD HELP US OOOOO
I refuse to be scared. This disease will not gain any ground in Nigeria IJN. It will go into extinction by God's grace.
Chai! Na waoh! May their souls rest in peace.
God please help us.
May his soul Rip.
Hmmmmmm, even wit protective gear?...my father my father, have mercy upon your chilldren..my confidence is in Exodus 15v26, I call him jehoveh Rapha
This is so sad...more protective measure should be put in place...if doctors continue to die who will then treat the infected persons
May they all RIP
gbengadennis@yahoo.com
God help us.
Jesus! I don't like living in fear of the unknown. God pls save us
This is sad. Rip hero
Ehya, but at least he saved lives rest in peace dear uniqueogo0@gmail.com
RIP 2 †ђƹ Dead. May God Save Us. (Linda's Man)
HUMANITARIAN SERVICE HAS COST DEM THEIR LIFES
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MAYTHEIR SOULS REST IN PEACE....AMEN
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Dis is criously, den anybody who knw he\she shud kindly stay @ home and die...and lagosians shud stay in their state...please. Don't want to die...
Eyah
It's high time Nigeria close its borders. This is serious. Please Linda post Ebola; the ripple effect by @chydee to get people educated on this issue.
May his soul rest in perfect peace and may God comfort the family he left behind
Hero. RIP
So sad! God please save us....
God save us from dis sickness o
Imagine the risk doctors take to save d life of patients but yet in Nigeria they are paid only #5000 per month for hazard allowance, yet politicians carry lots of money back home every month. There re many reasons why NMA strike will continue. Lots of injustice, bribery n corruption.
May His soul rest in peace. Only who is protected by God is free from the evil. God will protect us!
RP
Now this is serious than I tot. Lord pls protect us o.
OMG! No body treated him. It seems this Ebola is more powerful than HIV. Pls God don't let it come to Nigeria.
That's sad. If a doctor 😷 could die of the virus despite all his protective measures then we ain't safe... Now i will abstain myself from humans.... Jor oh
MICKY: the route/rate of transmission is very high,the protective gear couldn't help. It kills almost instantly. RIP heroes, all died on the point of saving lives
US STATE DEPARTMENT EBOLA ALERT
In order to help our Embassy Community better understand some of the key points about the Ebola virus we have consulted with our medical specialists at the U S State Department and assembled this list of bullet points worded in plain language for easy comprehension. Our medical specialists remind everyone that they should be following the guideline from the center for Disease Control and the World Health Organisation.
• The suspected reservoirs for Ebola are fruit bats.
• Transmission to humans is thought to originate from infected bats or primates that have become infected by bats.
• Undercooked infected bat and primate (bush) meat transmits the virus to humans.
• Human to human transmission is only achieved by physical contact with a person who is acutely and gravely ill from the Ebola virus or their body fluids.
• Transmission among humans is almost exclusively among caregiver family members or health care workers tending to the very ill.
• The virus is easily killed by contact with soap, bleach, sunlight, or drying. A washing machine will kill the virus in clothing saturated with infected body fluids.
• A person can incubate the virus without symptoms for 2-21 days, the average being 5-8 days before becoming ill. THEY ARE NOT CONTAGIOUS until they are acutely ill.
• Only when ill does the viral load express itself first in the blood and then in other bodily fluids (to include vomit, feces, urine, breast milk, semen and sweat).
• If you are walking around you are not infectious to others.
• There are documented cases from Kikwit, DRC of an Ebola outbreak in a village that had the custom of children never touching an ill adult. Children living for days in small one room huts with parents who died from Ebola did not become infected.
• You cannot contract Ebola by handling money, buying local bread or swimming in a pool.
• There is no medical reason to stop flights, close borders, restrict travel or close embassies, businesses or schools.
• As always practice good hand washing techniques, but you will not contract Ebola if you do not touch a dying person.
• US EMBASSY
Please share this information with your friends and families and try not to spread panic on social media.
Thanks
Hmmm. Sad oooo
Oh!God of mercy help we health workers and sheild us from this virus in Jesus name
GOd help yOur children,we are @ ur mercy
Service to humanity is what I chose but won't die of it.Amen
#OLY
Oh!God of mercy help we health workers and sheild us from this virus in Jesus name
Does it mean dt all dose he treated are still alive today? Den d oda doctors shuud av learnt ow he did it n helpd d doctor nw.
My God this is so scary o....
Awww heart touching !!!!!! may his soul rest in peace!!!!,!!!!
eh eh God pls have mercy,remember us in your mercy and do not consume us in your anger lord We plead
" Despite wearing protective gear" and they say this disease is not air borne. I fear oh
Lord bring peace to the world and divine healing to this patients
RIP.
nefertitin8@gmail.com
God help us...
Oh God,save us. May his soul rest in peace.
divine healing to thise nations Lord..
Jayc..
my God this is serious. How will the Situation be managed when protective suit can't protect the doctors and nurses.
I hope our doctors were able to save the situation.
RIP to the doctor and nurses ... real heros.
#PICCANTO#
lausmithuj@gmail.com
Ohhh too bad.may he rest in peace
That's the can of terrible hazard doctors face but nobody ever understands . and in Nigeria they pay a doctor 5 000naria for hazard...what is 5 000naria compared to the kind of life threatening hazard faced . And still disregarded by the FG....
very sad story
very sad story
God! So even plastic gears can't help,God dis is lyk d worst tin happening. Cgestheruko@gmail.com
1st comment ebola is nw d new naija anthem
This is serious, jim iyke abeg no come lagos ohhhhh!
Oh my! RIP Doc.
This virus is indeed a wicked one.
Omg! Rest in peace Dr. This Ebola thingy now making HIV sound like malaria. God please take such disease away ooo biko! It's well!
Hmmmn na wa ooo God pls help us ooo,or is dis how the world is going to come to an end?? #chizzy says so# chisomhelen50@gmail.com
RIP
Na wa ooo end time is here xristabel2all@yahoo.com
Lord have mercy on your children! ginnyluv08@yahoo.com
Rip God pls deliver Nigeria from this Ebola crap. Amen
Lord have mercy on your children!
Hmmmmmmm, God have mercy, but one thing i know is that he that dwells in the secrets place of the most high shall abide under the shadow of the almighty.
There courage is astounding. Even in the face of death they continued to serve humanity. What a self sacrificing spirit! Can this be said of Nigerian doctors and nurses who always is concerned about how much they get?
May this Doc's soul rest in perfect peace. Jehovah, we beseech you, remove this ' pestilence' from our lands. Psalm 91.
Now who will bell the Cat? RIP, and thanks you for the humanitarian service!!!
Its well o. Oluwa saanu fun wa o.We plead in Jesus name.
Waiter!Give me one more bottle 2 drink away this sad news! Mtchweeee!
lord!wat is happening???
Choi, na wa ooooo.....see gobe
omg...this is serious oh! may God give us wisdom to control and eliminate dis 4eve i beg. RIP brave one.
This reminds me of the SARS outbreak some years ago and when the news came all sorts of preventive measures were given, people were scared to their bones later the whole story and disease vanished into thin air. Now here we are today with Ebola outbreak so i look forward to it vanishing too. ~Hopefu~
choi!..hero indeed...me dae fear dz ebola tin faa...we safe Gods hand..ijn..ehn anty linda chop dz comment ooo
Rip.God help ur children pls.this sickness is so bad dat even d air from d grave can still infect ppl,its well. meg.
Wow!!!!!!
Even with protective gear?????? Haa!!!
Doctor may ur gentle soul RIP.u died a hero. Pls Lord protect all d health workers treating Ebola patients, Lord make their immune system resist dis deadly virus IJN
Doctor may ur gentle soul RIP.u died a hero. Pls Lord protect all d health workers treating Ebola patients, Lord make their immune system resist dis deadly virus IJN
OMG. ..This is really sad...but wait, if the treatments he was giving to the others worked, how come he didn't administer that to himself too...smh. .. Rip doc. His family is at risk now
Mia.E
So painful. Adios! He is a real Hero!!! Adios! @Fortunedexcel.
God o! Pls help us. May their souls RIP.
Dear Lord..biko kwa
Only God can contain the treats from this ugly reality.
He died as a hero. RIP
Amen
RIP Doctor
God pls show urself again
Wow and I thought cancer and AIDS were bad ass! God have mercy upon us
Its very hard for us as a nation Sierra Leone for the lost of the only specialist for amoragic fevers. I feel pains, I cried for Dr Khan may God welcome you " thou good and faithful servant" your fight to save humanity will always lingered in our minds. sleep on and take your rest.
Treating this Ebola may need some kind of sophisticated facilities to safeguard the health workers and I am sure the developed nations like US and UK knows how to go about it but they will want us to be on our knees first or maybe stake our oil.
.....Our own doctors will also now have a good reason to continue their strike indefinitely.
Mekus
E ya, God will see us through o o o
flexycouture@yahoo.com
Ha!!!!!!! Very scary!!! R.I.P
Emmanuel,honestly u are such a stupid person,infact,extremely stupid
This is serious
God punish u emmanuel...ur father will be brave like him fool...u dont pay a doctor his wages n expect him to die for u...
Ehya, RIP
Lol! Pls stop cracking me up biko. Na God go protect person from this kine thing. Odiegwu!
Are some people daft or what? By saying docs re paid 5000naira as hazard allowance in Nigeria,is it only doctors? STFU ,is it only doctors that attend to the sick? cant u read nurses have also died ..Infact nurses tends to give patients more care than doctors as they re the closest to the patient in terms of nursing care and the first point of contact in terms of vital signs..Also,Dont infectious blood samples and fluids of this same patients goes to the lab?? pls stop being one sided u fools...May GOD protect us all...
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