Three persons out of 50 classified as high-risk contacts have been
quarantined as in-house patients at the Ebola Isolation Unit, Eduoha in Emohua
Local Government Area of Rivers State, the state government said yesterday. Rivers State Health Commissioner, Dr. Sampson Parker, in his
briefing yesterday on the virus, said the three persons were placed under
observation through the state’s Contact Tracing Committee. The three were said
to have shown symptoms associated with the virus, he explained. Parker added
that the three persons a doctor and pharmacist who work at Sam Steel Clinic
(Enemuo’s clinic) as well as a female patient who was treated clinic had been
taken to the quarantine centre at Eduoha for closer examination and observation
by a team of medical experts. He further disclosed that 50 out of some 200
people under surveillance were categorised as high-risk because of their
primary contact with the late Doctor Ike Enemuo. In addition, Parker appealed
to about 60 people who had secondary contact with the late Enemuo and who were
yet to be located to come out and report themselves to the Rivers State
Government’s medical team as quickly as possible. He expressed regrets that some
people were reluctant to present themselves to the medical team because of the
stigma associated with the disease.
Thisday Newspaper
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