Dr Uchenna Emelonye is the Country Representative of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Liberia. The highest-ranking Nigerian in the UN human rights system shared his family...
Dr Uchenna Emelonye is the Country Representative of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Liberia. The highest-ranking Nigerian in the UN human rights system shared his family’s battle with COVID-19 with DAYO OJERINDEFrankly, I don’t know and probably only God knows. To provide you with our context, I am presently serving in Liberia and my family resides in Abuja, because my current posting is a non-family duty station.
I recall the experience and was certainly sure that it takes the grace of God for someone not to contract the virus because social distancing measures are impracticable and impossible in an Abuja open-air market and ostensibly other open markets in Nigeria. At the end of these risky shopping exercises during the lockdown, we diligently observed precautionary ablutions and sanitisation before making contact with kids or doing any other thing at home.
I got to know that I had COVID-19 in a strange way and seemingly through an ambush. Bearing in mind that I had been home and out of my duty station for over two months and recognising that working from home in Abuja was not the same as working from home in Monrovia, my office requested me to return to Monrovia amidst the global lockdown, using the UN special flight operated by the Word Food Programme.
By Tuesday morning, my condition had developed into full-blown cold with running noise and headache. On Wednesday morning, I was really sick to the extent that I admitted to my wife through a phone call that I would not be surprised if I failed the COVID-19 test. Being the medical practitioner that she is, she encouraged me and dissuaded my thoughts that my symptoms would most likely be psychosomatic, because I left home few days ago healthy and everybody I left behind was healthy.
What symptoms did you and your family members exhibited when you contracted the virus? Can you share your experience at the treatment centre and do you or any member of your family have any underlining health issues?
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