Four more patients, who had been undergoing
treatment for the Ebola virus disease, were on
Monday discharged from the Lagos treatment centre,
after they had been certified free of the disease.
The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, who
disclosed this in a statement by his Special Assistant
on Media and Communication, Mr. Dan Nwomeh, said
those discharged included three medical personnel
and a female patient.
He said the medical personnel included two male
medical doctors and one female nurse.The three
medical personnel were said to have participated in
the treatment of the index case (the Liberian, Patrick
Sawyer, who was the first person to die of the
disease), while the fourth person was a female
patient at the time the index case was on
admission.The statement read, “The Minister of
Health Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu has announced that
four additional confirmed cases of Ebola Virus
Disease who have been managed successfully and
are now disease free have been discharged home
today.
“They include two male medical doctors and one
female nurse. The three participated in the treatment
of the index case 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 Ebola Virus Disease who have now
been discharged from hospital.”
It will be recalled that the minister on Saturday,
announced that the first Nigerian to be diagnosed of
EVD, a female doctor, had been discharged after she
was treated and healed of the disease.The minister
had said that the total number of confirmed cases of
EVD in Nigeria, remained at 12 while the number of
deaths due to EVD was four and number of persons
under surveillance in Lagos and Enugu was 189 and
six respectively.He had also said 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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