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In reply to the discussion: Why are western health workers with Ebola flown out, but locals left to die? [View all]Lancero
(3,280 posts)A US citizen was refused permission to return from Africa, despite needing medical help. He WASN'T infected with Ebola, but had fell into a coma. His family was wanting to bring him back to the US to have access to better equipped facilities and a neurologist.
Note that he wasn't infected with Ebola. He was tested many times, cleared everytime. He needed to be brought back home to recieve medical attention that he couldn't obtain in Africa.
Instead, we left him to die. And he did die.
We've pulled out ebola infected people, our citizens, from ebola infected countries for better medical attention But why did we refuse to allow this one person, a uninfected person, to return for medical help? If it's really about bringing our people back home, why was he left to die?
He was black. To date, the ebola infected people we've pulled out, the citizens you say we are saving not because of skin color but because bringing our people back is what we do? They were white.
http://www.blackyouthproject.com/2014/08/healthy-u-s-man-in-africa-dies-after-being-denied-re-entry-due-to-ebola-outbreak/