Four More Ebola Patients Recover & Discharged

Four more patients including two doctors, a patient, and a nurse who were infected with the deadly Ebola virus have been discharged yesterday after been cleared. They were discharged from the quarantine unit of the Emergency Operation Centre, at the Mainland Hospital, Yaba, Lagos.

This brings the number of people who have fully recovered from the deadly virus ravaging some West African countries to five in Lagos State. On Saturday August 16th, the Health Minister announced that the first Nigerian to be diagnosed of EVD, a female doctor, had been discharged after she was treated and certified cured.

The news of their discharge was disclosed in a statement released yesterday by the Minister of Health, Prof Onyebuchi Chukwu and signed by his his Special Assistant on Media and Communication, Mr. Dan Nwomeh. Read parts of the statement after the cut...

“The Minister of Health Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu has announced that four additional confirmed cases of Ebola Virus Disease who have been managed successfully and are now disease free have been discharged home today. They include two male medical doctors and one female nurse. The three participated in the treatment of the index case while the fourth person was a female patient at the time the index case was on admission. This brings to five the total number of patients diagnosed with Ebola Virus Disease who have now been discharged from hospital.”

The Minister also stated that the total number of cases of the Ebola Virus Disease in Nigeria remained at 12 while the number of deaths from the disease was four and that the number of people under surveillance in Lagos is 189 while in Enugu is 6.