Nigeria: 10th Ebola Survivor Discharged As Authorities Struggle To Contain Outbreak
The 10th Ebola survivor in Nigeria has been discharged from the quarantine centre in southern State after she was successfully treated, Comm...
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The 10th Ebola survivor in Nigeria has been discharged from the quarantine centre in southern State after she was successfully treated, Commissioner for Health Sampson Parker said.
Addressing journalists here, Dr Parker identified the survivor as Enemuo, sister of Dr. Ike Enemuo, who died of Ebola virus in the state capital, Harcourt, after successfully treating an ECOWAS official who contracted the disease from the index case, Liberian Patrick Sawyer.
''The good news is that the only Ebola positive patient we had at the quarantine centre has been treated and certified free to go home. She has been discharged,'' the Commissioner said. ''We have another one patient at the centre now. She is an 18-month-old baby who has been tested and we are still waiting for the result of the test.''
He said the state's health authorities continued to monitor some people to know their status, even though none of them has shown any symptoms.
The Commissioner also disclosed that the wife of Dr Enemuo, who is being treated at the Lagos isolation centre after she contracted the virus, was responding to treatment.
Ebola has claimed seven lives in Africa's most populous nation.
PANA recalled that the Ebola epidemic ravaging Guinea, Liberia and Leone, killing over 2,000 people, spread to Nigeria July 23 when Sawyer arrived in Lagos on his way to the eastern city of Calabar for an ECOWAS meeting.
Sawyer died of the disease two days later at a private hospital in Lagos, where he infected many health workers.
Source: Bernama
''The good news is that the only Ebola positive patient we had at the quarantine centre has been treated and certified free to go home. She has been discharged,'' the Commissioner said. ''We have another one patient at the centre now. She is an 18-month-old baby who has been tested and we are still waiting for the result of the test.''
He said the state's health authorities continued to monitor some people to know their status, even though none of them has shown any symptoms.
The Commissioner also disclosed that the wife of Dr Enemuo, who is being treated at the Lagos isolation centre after she contracted the virus, was responding to treatment.
Ebola has claimed seven lives in Africa's most populous nation.
PANA recalled that the Ebola epidemic ravaging Guinea, Liberia and Leone, killing over 2,000 people, spread to Nigeria July 23 when Sawyer arrived in Lagos on his way to the eastern city of Calabar for an ECOWAS meeting.
Sawyer died of the disease two days later at a private hospital in Lagos, where he infected many health workers.
Source: Bernama
