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28 Aug 2014

Nigeria Confirms Ebola Death In Port-Harcourt




According to Sahara Reports A doctor, who secretly treated a diplomat who had contact with the index case, Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer, has died of Ebola in Nigeria.
The doctor, who has yet to be named, died on Friday. His wife has also taken ill and has been quarantined in Port Harcourt. Interestingly, the diplomat the doctor treated is still alive.

The diplomat, who was part of the team who met with Patrick Sawyer in Lagos, flew to Port Harcourt, Rivers State for treatment, evading Nigerian federal government surveillance for the disease. The late doctor then took him to a hotel for treatment.

As a result of this, 70 people have been quarantined. The doctor's hospital, Good Heart Hospital in Rivers State, has been shut down. The unnamed hotel, where the secret treatment took place, has also been shut down.


Health minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said the medic died on August 22 after treating a patient who had contact with a Liberian-American man, who brought the virus into Nigeria and died in a Lagos hospital on July 25.

“Following the report of this death by the doctor’s widow the next day, the case had been thoroughly investigated and laboratory analysis showed that this doctor died from EVD (Ebola Virus Disease),” he told reporters in Abuja.(AFP) This comes as a huge surprised since the Minister earlier confirmed only one case was currently treated.


6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh no not again...How can this be

Anonymous said...

I thought this saga was over

Anonymous said...

Why are men so wicked....This Diplomat hmmmmmmmmmmm.

Anonymous said...

Na wa after the minister of health says only one case...When how did this one happen na

Anonymous said...

It is well

Anonymous said...

This is crazy...