The first confirmed Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, case that was also one of the
three persons quarantined in Oduoha, Emohua Local Government Area, Port Harcourt, Rivers
State, has died of the
disease.
The deceased, an elderly woman, is the seventh Ebola fatality to be recorded
in the country, and the first death in the new Port Harcourt isolation centre for Ebola.
She was said to have shared the same room with late Dr. Iyke Enemuo, the
doctor who treated the Nigerian ECOWAS diplomat, Koye Olu-Ibukun at the Good Heart Hospital, Port
Harcourt, prior to the death of the former from EVD.
It could be recalled that the late woman was quarantined with a doctor
and a pharmacist, who were staff of Sam Steel Clinic, a health facility founded
by late Enemuo.
However, following several tests ran on the duo, it was discovered that they
were free from Ebola and were given a clean bill of health. Though reports say
they were still under medical surveillance.
Presenting an update on the status of EVD, in Nigeria,
Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, disclosed that the eighth Ebola
patient successfully managed in the Lagos
isolation centre was discharged Tuesday.
Chukwu, who gave the number of cases successfully managed and
discharged in the country as eight, explained that the last case to be
discharged, (the eighth case) was the first secondary contact to be diagnosed, adding
that the patient is a spouse of a primary contact of the index (first) case.
He said: “Total number of cases successfully managed and discharged is now
eight. The last case to be discharged, the first secondary contact to be
diagnosed and a spouse of a primary contact of the index case, went home from
the isolation ward in Lagos
yesterday (Tuesday). The ninth survivor is the ECOWAS Commission official who
jumped surveillance in Lagos and travelled to Port Harcourt where he
infected the doctor who attended to him.”
Chukwu who hinted that schools may re-open from September 15, 2014 as
last contacts under surveillance may be discharged by then and the fact
that there were no community transmissions in Nigeria, stressed that the 18th
confirmed case of Ebola in Nigeria is the sister of the late Port Harcourt
doctor, who is currently on admission in the Lagos isolation centre.
He said: “Total number of deaths from Ebola Virus Disease in Nigeria is now
seven. One is the index (first) case, which occurred in a private hospital in
Lagos; four in the Lagos isolation ward, one in the Port Harcourt isolation
ward, the female patient who was on admission in the same hospital where the
late Port Harcourt doctor was also admitted, while another one was the doctor who
was infected by the ECOWAS Commission official in Port Harcourt and who did not
come under the care and management of the Incident Management Committee.”
The total number of EVD patients currently under treatment, according to the
Minister, is two; one in the Lagos isolation
ward and another one in the Port
Harcourt isolation ward.
On contacts, Chukwu said 41 contacts are currently under surveillance in Lagos while Port
Harcourt has 296.
On the positive side, the minister also revealed that a total of 320
contacts have been discharged in Lagos
after they were observed for 21 days.
4 comments:
God help us with this evil disease
I hope the Diplomat that took EVD To Port Harcourt is happy with his achievement
Chineke...This really scary oooo
Lord have mercy.....
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