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The Nigerian health system may be collapsing due to staff and administrator fear of contracting Ebola. Here is a link to a Nigerian web news site, with excerpts below.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/ebola-civilians-barred-from-military-hospitals-lagos-hospitals-reject-patients/188221/

"Scared stiff of the Ebola virus especially in some Lagos hospitals, the military has secretly ordered its health care workers to stop attending to civilians at its hospitals across the country.
In most military hospitals in Nigeria, civilians account for less than 80 per cent of the patients that are attended to on a daily basis, meaning that the order will be depriving a sizeable number of Nigerians from accessing medical care from the military hospitals.
A source close to the military told THISDAY that the instruction was handed down in a memo to all Nigerian Air Force hospitals in the country last Friday in memo titled, “Order to Unit Order”.
... A nurse with the Lagos State Government hospital in Alimosho Local Government Area told THISDAY that patients are usually assessed from the gate and asked to turn back, if they are discovered to have a fever.
“The truth is that no one wants to take the risk anymore, even if you are not stopped at the gate, no one will attend to you in here. We had a dramatic case of man who came from Togo last week with a serious fever and he beat our security watch to get inside, we simply asked him to leave,” she said.
In the same vein, medical workers and patients at the Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki (FETHA), an Ebonyi State hospital, yesterday took to their heels when the alarm was raised over a suspected Ebola case.
THISDAY gathered that when the rumour filtered into the hospital that a patient admitted was suspected to be infected with the virus, patients, nurses and even some doctors scampered out of the hospital premises ..."