Liberia, July 21 -- The resignation of Joana Domingo Joekai as Director of Nursing Services at John F. Kennedy Medical Center (JFK), Liberia's largest public hospital, has exposed a months-long internal dispute that hospital sources say ended with her reassignment to the Ministry of Health over allegations of repeated insubordination - and, separately, over her alleged role in a false Ebola scare that spread on social media.

Joekai is married to Josiah F. Joekai Jr., director general of Liberia's Civil Service Agency, the government body that oversees hiring and personnel policy across the country's public sector. That marriage has made her departure a matter of unusual scrutiny in Monrovia, where officials' spouses are often seen as ex...