BREAKING: Nigeria Records New Ebola Death In Port Harcourt

A doctor, who secretly treated a diplomat who had contact with the index case, Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer, has died of Ebola in Nigeria.

The doctor, who has yet to be named, died on Friday. His wife has also taken ill and has been quarantined in Port Harcourt. Interestingly, the diplomat the doctor treated is still alive.

The diplomat, who was part of the team who met with Patrick Sawyer in Lagos, flew to Port Harcourt, Rivers State for treatment, evading Nigerian federal government surveillance for the disease. The late doctor then took him to a hotel for treatment.

As a result of this, 70 people have been quarantined. The doctor's hospital, Good Heart Hospital in Rivers State, has been shut down. The unnamed hotel, where the secret treatment took place, has also been shut down.

The Minister of Health and the Rivers State government are expected to make a statement on the incident tomorrow.

Posted: at 28-08-2014 12:31 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac

This is not true

Posted: at 28-08-2014 12:45 AM (9 years ago) | Upcoming

Really?

Posted: at 28-08-2014 03:08 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Alarmist

Posted: at 28-08-2014 05:24 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac

The state of our hospitals are terrible. They look like long halls with beds pushed to eitther side.There is never any life saving equipment near any bed, our isolation wards look like make shift camping tents with medical staff wearing the same type of gloves worn by hair stylists applying relaxer to a customers hair.

The  African preparedness and fight against Ebola is really, really making me ANGRY. Up until now there does not appear to be any winning over this illness. In Liberia we have the military out shooting at victims of Ebola.

Now they CLAIM it has spread to PH. We are still unsure how many people were in contact with Sawyer. Now we are told he STAYED in a hotel. Only God knows how many guests were infected and hotel staff who were in contact
with him.

Why is it so EASY  to evade the  Nigeria Federal Government SURVEILLANCE team? All airports, borders (both illegal and legal) , should be prepared for people coming in from other parts of West Aftica with symptoms of Ebola. Our health system cannot deal with this.

Posted: at 28-08-2014 06:44 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac

you said it dearie......but there is God...no matter what...we will survive

Posted: at 28-08-2014 07:10 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Fake news

Posted: at 28-08-2014 08:30 AM (9 years ago) | Upcoming

God have mercy... No more hank shake and so on....

Posted: at 28-08-2014 08:43 AM (9 years ago) | Newbie

not again!!!

Posted: at 28-08-2014 09:25 AM (9 years ago) | Hero

The Minister of Health and the Rivers State Government are expected to make statement on this incident tomorrow.
Why is this man playing with deadly thing like this. so far as I am concern there is nothing like this in Rivers State

Posted: at 28-08-2014 09:48 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac