Four more people who had been undergoing treatment for the
Ebola Virus Disease were on Monday discharged from the Lagos treatment centre
after being certified free.
The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, made this
known in a statement by his Special Assistant on Media and
Communication, Mr. Dan Nwomeh, that the four discharged persons comprised of two male medical doctors, a female
nurse and a female patient.
He explained that the three medical personnel participated
in the treatment of the Liberian-American, Patrick Sawyer, who was the first
person to die of the disease in Nigeria.
The statement read, “The Minister of Health has announced
that four additional confirmed cases of EVD who have been managed successfully
and are now disease free have been discharged today(Monday).
“They include two male medical doctors and one female nurse.
The three participated in the treatment of the index case(Sawyer) while the
fourth person was a female patient at the time the index case was on admission.
“This brings to five, the total number of patients diagnosed
with EVD who have now been discharged from hospital.”
Chukwu had on Saturday, announced that a female doctor , who
was the first Nigerian to be diagnosed of EVD,
had been discharged .
He had also said that Nigeria had recorded 12 cases of EVD,
including four deaths. The number of Nigerians under surveillance
in Lagos and Enugu, according to him, is 195.
The minister added that the patients under treatment had
been moved to the new 40-bed capacity isolation ward provided by the Lagos
State Government.
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