Four additional confirmed Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) patients were Monday
discharged from the quarantine centre in Lagos. This brought to five the total
number of patients diagnosed with the virus who are now declared free of the
infection and have left hospital. The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi
Chukwu, Monday, said, they have been managed successfully and are now
disease-free. They have been discharged home today (Monday). A statement by the
Special Assistant on Media and Communication to the Minister of Health, Mr. Dan
Nwomeh, said that the discharged patients included “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. And from the United States (U.S.) Ambassador to Nigeria, James
Entwistle, yesterday came the declaration that his country did not have
enough experimental drugs to give Nigeria for the treatment of EVD patients. He
commended the efforts of the Federal and Lagos State Governments in containing
the outbreak. Yesterday too, a member of the National Committee on Ebola and
professor of pharmacognosy at University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN), Prof. Maurice
Iwu, told The Guardian in an exclusive interview that the Federal Government
was set to deploy a Japanese drug to treat Ebola patients and that he was
working on reactivating a bitter kola drug for the treatment of the virus with
or without government’s support.
Guardian Newspaper
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