"Nigeria has no more Ebola case" -- Health Minister
Nigeria's Health Minister, Professor Onyebuchi
Chukwu, has today announced that there is “no
single current” case of Ebola in Nigeria. Chukwu
also confirmed that wife of the late Port Harcourt
doctor who treated a primary contact of the index
case, Patrick Sawyer, has been discharged from the
isolation ward in Lagos. The minister said she was
discharged on Tuesday, adding that there was no
new confirmed case of Ebola in the country.
“As of today, the total number of confirmed cases
of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Nigeria stands at
19, 15 in Lagos, four in Port Harcourt. The total
number of deaths from EVD in Nigeria stands at
seven. Five of this died in Lagos, one in a private
hospital, the index case Mr Sawyer, and the other
four 4 in the isolation ward in Lagos State.
Two of the seven died in Port Harcourt, the medical
doctor who died in a private hospital and the
contact, a patient in the hospital at the time the
doctor was also on admission, who died in the
isolation ward in Rivers state.
The total number of patients who have been
successfully managed and discharged is now 10.
The latest are the sister of the Port Harcourt doctor
who was discharged from the isolation ward in
Rivers state on September 7, 2014, and the wife of
the same doctor who was discharged from the
isolation ward in Lagos state, yesterday, September
9, 2014. (Please note that the 10 patients
successfully managed and discharged are among
the total number of 12 survivors of EVD in Nigeria.
At present, there is no single current case of
confirmed EVD in Nigeria. However, a suspected
case of EVD from Ile-Ife, a university student who
had contact with the late Port Harcourt doctor at a
naming ceremony in Port Harcourt has been
quarantined and is being investigated.”
