Friends and associates of the Ebola victim in Port Harcourt, Dr. Ikechukwu Sam Enemuo, have said that he was a victim of his passion for medicine.
Enemuo, the proprietor of Samstel Clinic and Maternity in the oil city, contracted the disease from an ECOWAS diplomat, Olubukun Koye, who himself had been infected after coming in contact with the index case, Patrick Sawyer.
Some critics had blamed Enemuo for deciding to treat the diplomat for financial reasons at the expense of his life and the safety of others.
But speaking in separate interviews in Port Harcourt, some friends of the deceased doctor said he was not crazy for money.
One of his friends, Mr. Antony Azuka, said he personally encouraged him to
up his private hospital.
Azuka said: “At a point, he became much sought after in Port Harcourt. Every hospital wanted him to work for them. He was a workaholic, huge in size and full of energy, though he struggled so much then to make ends meet.
”When I saw how good he was on the job, I personally advised him to start his own clinic. He objected, but I continued to encourage him until he gave it a trial.
“I am not exaggerating, D’Iky, as we called him, was good in medicine. His workers and patients can testify that he was a genius in medicine.”
Mr. Idaye Opi, a lawyer, said of Enemuo: “Iky was my friend, an acquaintance and also my client. I have known him for more than five years. Over time, I came to respect him for his hard work.
“He graduated from the University of Jos and came to Rivers State for youth service, and stayed back thereafter.
”I don’t know why Iky did what he did, but it is very bad that Iky had to die this way, because I knew Iky to be a responsible, hardworking, i
ntelligent young man. I’m not happy that he ended his life like this.
“Iky, like any other working person, liked to earn his money. But I don’t see him as a criminal anyway.
“There was a time somebody died in his clinic.The police officer relation of the old man came after him. I followed him all through the time. Even the Nigeria Medical Association(NMA) cleared him because he did his work well.
“The man died as a result of abandonment at the hospital by his relations to the point that Iky was treating and feeding him with his own money.
“When the man later died, they came out to make trouble because they wanted to extort money from somebody.
“He was not that kind of person people are talking about, but he liked to see and have the proceeds of the job he did.”
via nigerianeye
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