LAGOS (AFP) – The Federal Government on Wednesday announced that a seventh person had died from Ebola and another person was confirmed as having the virus.
The latest death was a patient at the isolation ward in the oil city of Port Harcourt, where a doctor died on August 22 after treating a man who had brought the disease into the state.
Dr Ike Enemuo fell ill and died after treating an official from the ECOWAS regional bloc who travelled to Port Harcourt after having contact with a Liberian man who brought the virus into Nigeria. The Enemuo’s wife contacted the disease, which claimed the life of her husband, Ike Enemuo, on August 22
The other five deaths were in the financial capital, Lagos. Four were healthcare workers who had treated the Liberian, who also died.
Health ministry spokesman Dan Nwomeh said 18 people, including the deceased, had now been confirmed as having the virus in Nigeria — 14 in Lagos and four in Port Harcourt, 435 kilometres (270 miles) away.
The wife of the Port Harcourt doctor who died was being treated at an isolation unit in Lagos, while another case was in a quarantine facility in the oil industry hub.
Eight people who contracted the virus have been successfully treated and discharged, Nwomeh said in a series of statements on Twitter. A ninth person, who infected the Port Harcourt doctor, also recovered.
A total of 41 people were under surveillance in Lagos and 255 in Port Harcourt. And 320 people have been discharged in Lagos after being under surveillance for 21 days — the virus’ incubation period.
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Posted: at 3-09-2014 08:50 PM (10 years ago) | Addicted Hero
Slimchery at 3-09-2014 10:53 PM (10 years ago) (m)
You see what that man that call himself doctor bring upon himself and the family, they should go and check the children also because i still imagine why on earth an educated man will behaved in that manner, treat patient in the hotel, that means he was already aware of the decease before he decide to take on the treatment because of greed, i am not against you treating patent but why hotel, now you have put many life in danger and even the Liberia man is better than this Dr Ike Enemuo
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