One of the three persons quarantined
in Oduoha, Emohua Local Government Area, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has died
of the disease.
The deceased, an elderly woman, is
the seventh Ebola fatality to be recorded in the country, and the first death
in the new Port Harcourt isolation centre for Ebola.
She was said to have shared the same
room with late Dr. Iyke Enemuo, the doctor who treated the Nigerian ECOWAS
diplomat, Koye Olu-Ibukun at the Good Heart Hospital, Port Harcourt, prior to
the death of the former from EVD.
It could be recalled that the late
woman was quarantined with a doctor and a pharmacist, who were staff of
Sam Steel Clinic, a health facility founded by late Enemuo.
However, following several tests ran
on the duo, it was discovered that they were free from Ebola and were given a
clean bill of health. Though reports say they were still under medical
surveillance.
On the present status
of EVD in Nigeria, Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, disclosed
that the eighth Ebola patient successfully managed in the Lagos isolation
centre was discharged Tuesday.
Chukwu, who gave the number of
cases successfully managed and discharged in the country as eight, explained
that the last case to be discharged, (the eighth case) was the first secondary
contact to be diagnosed, adding that the patient is a spouse of a primary
contact of the index (first) case.
Chukwu who hinted that schools may
re-open from September 15, 2014 as last contacts under surveillance may
be discharged by then and the fact that there were no community
transmissions in Nigeria, stressed that the 18th confirmed case of Ebola in
Nigeria is the sister of the late Port Harcourt doctor, who is currently on
admission in the Lagos Isolation Centre.
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