Police action ... Liberian police try to protect an Ebola burial team in the West Point slum in Monrovia, Liberia after they're mobbed by hundreds of residents. Picture: Getty Source: Getty Images
In the Liberian capital of Monrovia, the citys main hospital has very little staff and few patients an exodus triggered by several Ebola-related deaths at the facility.
SEVENTEEN patients infected with Ebola are unaccounted for after fleeing an armed raid on a quarantine centre in Monrovia by men who claim the epidemic is a fiction.
"They broke down the door and looted the place. The patients have all gone," according to a witness at the scene of the attack on the outskirts of the Liberian capital.
The report has been confirmed by residents and the head of Health Workers Association of Liberia, George Williams.
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Persuasive ... residents tell patients in an Ebola isolation in Monrovia, Liberia, to escape. Picture: Getty Source: Getty Images
On the run ... a family flees an Ebola isolation centre in Monrovia, Liberia, after a mob forced open the gates. Picture: Getty Source: Getty Images
Williams said on Sunday the unit housed 29 patients who "had all tested positive for Ebola" and were receiving preliminary treatment before being taken to hospital.
"Of the 29 patients, 17 fled last night (after the assault). Nine died four days ago and three others were yesterday (Saturday) taken by force by their relatives" from the centre, he said.
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The attackers, mostly young men armed with clubs, shouted that President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf "is broke" and "there's no Ebola" in Liberia as they broke into the unit in a Monrovia suburb, Wesseh said.
Protest ... hundreds of people in Monrovia's West Point slum mob an Ebola burial team who were trying to collect the bodies of four people who had died overnight. Picture: Getty Source: Getty Images
Residents had opposed the creation of the centre, set up by health authorities in part of the city considered an epicentre of the Ebola outbreak in the Liberian capital.
"We told them not to (build) their camp here. They didn't listen to us," said a young resident, who declined to give his name.
"We don't believe in this Ebola outbreak."
The Ebola outbreak, the worst since the virus first appeared in 1976, has claimed 1145 lives in five months, according to the UN World Health Organisation's latest figures as of August 13: 413 in Liberia, 380 in Guinea, 348 in Sierra Leone and four in Nigeria.
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