A South African, suspected of showing symptoms of Ebola Virus
Disease, EVD, as she arrived Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos yesterday, has
been quarantined at the isolation ward in Lagos. The female passenger, Folswe
Elizabeth Maria, on board Royal Air Maroc, from Morocco was on transit and was
said to have taken ill at the transit area of the airport after using the
toilet. The case was immediately reported to officials of the Port Health
Services who used the Infra-red Thermometre to test her and discovered that she
had high temperature. The passenger was later taken to an isolation centre and
kept under observation by Port Health officials. It was further gathered that
the woman had worked previously in two Ebola Virus Disease-prone countries of
Guinea and Sierra Leone, thus fuelling suspicion that she could have contracted
the disease. The sources said: The passenger, who is from South Africa, came
aboard Royal Air Maroc. She followed normal processes even at the Nigeria
Immigration Service. She is a transit passenger and she was at the transit
lounge where she went to drink and thereafter felt uneasy; went to the toilet
and on coming back, she fell ill. The case was reported to the Port Health
Service officials who immediately examined her. A statement signed by the
Special Assistant on Media and Communications to the Minister of Health, Dan
Nwomeh said: “The South African national suspected of showing symptoms of Ebola
at the international airport (Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos)
was quarantined at the isolation ward in Lagos while her case is being
investigated.
Vanguard Newspaper
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