The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, has put the total number
of confirmed cases of Ebola Virus Disease in Nigeria at 18. The 18th patient,
according to the Federal Government, is the sister of the late Port Harcourt
doctor who died of the EVD recently. A statement issued on Wednesday night by
his Special Assistant (Media and Communication), Mr. Dan Nwomeh, said the
number of cases successfully managed and discharged was eight while the number
of deaths from EVD was seven. Chukwu also debunked rumours of EVD cases outside
Lagos and Port Harcourt, adding that, regarding the rumoured case in Zaria, the
blood sample has been sent for Ebola testing. He said, The total number of
confirmed cases of Ebola Virus Disease in Nigeria is now 18. The 18th confirmed
case is the sister of the late Port Harcourt doctor. The 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 9th 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. The total number of deaths from Ebola Virus
Disease in Nigeria is now seven. One, the index case 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.
Punch Newspaper
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