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Eric Duncan family settles with Texas Presby’s Hospital…Says ‘We want a life of peace’
*“Duncan was poor. He had no insurance and he was black. We asked, begged, pleaded for the Doctors to save Eric’s life…They said no.”- Josephus Weeks, Duncan’s Nephew
*Why Duncan family dropped lawsuit against Dallas Hospital
*Reasons Experimental Drug was used to treat Duncan, Delay in providing it-Health Expert
* “Duncan’s family is holding a press conference on Wednesday morning “regarding a resolution they have reached on behalf of the children and parents of the deceased with Texas Health Resources and all related entities-” Miller Weisbrod, Duncan’s family lawyer
BY TIMOTHY OKECHUKWU/REPORTER, DALLAS, TEXAS
INSPITE of the death on October 8, 2014 of Eric Thomas Duncan of Ebola virus at Texas Presbyterian Hospital, Dallas, facts have began to emerge why the Duncan’s family soft-pedaled in pursuing their earlier legal battle regarding the ‘nonchalant, neglect and negligence’ on the part of some nurses and doctors who administered health medication on the late Liberian man, the first African to die of Ebola-related disease on the soil of United States-cremated thereafter.
According to information gathered by Naija Standard, the Duncan’s family were earlier ready for ‘mother-of-all-battles’ but was later prevailed upon by some well-meaning African-American communities and larger family members to drop the lawsuit in the interest of peace for everyone.
Duncan’s family question Health medication
Naija Standard gathered that before now, questions on the mouth of the Duncan’s family members were: “Why was Eric not saved by the trained nurses and doctors? Why was he not administered preventive medication-at least to stabilize his health and prolong his life? Why was experimental drug that had never been used or tried on any human being used on Eric? To them (the family), Eric was treated as Guinea-Pig for experiment. That was why when he was diagnosed with Ebola at Texas Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas on Sept. 28, he had already been sent home once from the hospital with antibiotics.”
After returning home to his fiancé’s family — which would later endure a 21-day quarantine — Duncan was brought back to the hospital in an ambulance after vomiting on the sidewalk in front of his apartment building and exposing two nurses to Ebola, he died barely two weeks after.
Lamenting, Duncan’s nephew Josephus Weeks reportedly said: “We asked. We begged. We pleaded. I even offered my own blood to the hospital, even though it wouldn’t do anything. We requested everything we could think of to save Eric. They said no. Unlike some other Ebola patients provided state-of-the-art experimental treatments and swept to advanced medical facilities like the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Duncan was poor. He had no insurance. And he was black.”
Now, after alleging that Texas Presbyterian had not done right by Duncan, his family has reached what its attorneys called a “resolution” with the health-care facility.
Duncan’s family in Peace Moves with Dallas Hospital
Naija Standard learnt to avoid any acrimony among the larger African community in Dallas and stop any undue racial-coloration to this crisis, the Duncan family had reached out to the Presby’s Hospital in the interest of ‘peace and co-existence’ in the Dallas community.
According to a statement issued by the law offices of Miller Weisbrod, Duncan’s family will hold a press conference on Wednesday morning “regarding a resolution they have reached on behalf of the children and parents of the deceased with Texas Health Resources and all related entities.”
One health-care expert questioned the choice of an experimental drug used to treat Duncan — and the delay in providing it.
