With the ongoing case of EVD in Port-harcourt,Three people have been taken to the Ebola Virus
Disease quarantine centre at Oduoha, Emohua Local Government Area
of Rivers State.
The State Commissioner for Health, Sampson
Parker, made this known on Sunday just as the Federal Government said another
emergency meeting of the National Council of Health over the EVD would hold in Abuja today. The last
meeting took place on August 11, 2014.
Parker, who addressed journalists,
said those quarantined were a doctor, a pharmacist and a woman who
came into contact with Dr. Iyke Enemuo, who died of the virus in Port Harcourt on August
22.
The pharmacist and the doctor are members of
staff of Sam Steel
Hospital while the nurse
worked at the Good
Heart Hospital
where Enemuo died.
Sam Steel Hospital
was founded by Enemuo, who contracted Ebola while treating an ECOWAS diplomat,
Koye Olu-Ibukun, who travelled to Port
Harcourt after coming into contact with the
Liberian-American, Patrick Sawyer. Sawyer died from the virus in Nigeria.
(The pharmacist, nurse and doctor) have not been confirmed (as
having Ebola) and we are waiting for the result of the investigation today
(Sunday.”
Some 200 primary and secondary contacts have been
traced, although about 60 had yet to be spoken to, he added. None of them had
shown symptoms.
He said, “I have been telling you before now
that almost 200 persons have been line-traced. Out of this number, we are still
to be in touch with about 60 of them.
“But 50 high risk contacts have been identified.
Because of stigma and the rest of them, these persons are not coming up but we
are still on them.
4 comments:
It is well
This was totally one man disobedience
Save us form this Calamity in Jesus name
I can't believe that the Late man is Doctor.....Behaving in such manner
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