The Minister of Health in Nigeria, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, says the first Nigerian Ebola patient declared fit and discharged from hospital in a report by Channels tv.
Professor Chukwu told journalists in Lagos on Saturday that the patient, whose identity has not been revealed, was asked to go home after all the necessary medical examinations were carried out.
“The total number of Ebola cases now stands at 12, while the number of deaths remains four. The people under surveillance in Lagos is now 189, while six are in Enugu, in southeast Nigeria,” Professor Chukwu said.
The minister also announced that the drug, Nano Silva, which was thought could be used to treat Ebola patients in Nigeria, was said not to have met the requirements of the National Health Research ethics code.
His statement is coming two days after the death of a fourth Ebola patient was reported.
In an effort to contain the spread of the virus, the Lagos State government, the only state in Nigeria with reported cases of Ebola, had provided an isolation unit to accommodate persons who tested positive to the virus.
The discharged patient is believed to be among those he earlier said were recovering.
The World Health Organization has called this Ebola outbreak, whose worst affected countries include Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, an international emergency. It has killed around 55 to 60 per cent of those who have contracted the disease.
President Goodluck Jonathan last week declared the Ebola outbreak in Lagos State a national emergency and approved an intervention fund of 1.9 billion Naira to contain the disease.
The doctor who treated Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian-American who
brought Ebola into the country, at First Consultant Hospital, and was
subsequently infected with the virus, has recovered and has been
discharged from the Isolation centre in Lagos.
The doctor, whose identity is unclear at this time, was the first Nigerian infected with the virus and had been receiving treatment at the Isolation centre.
The Director of Communication and Community Mobilisation for the Nigerian Emergency Operation Centre on Ebola Virus Disease, Adebayo Onajole, confirmed to PREMIUM TIMES that the doctor had been discharged.
He however declined to give further details, saying the Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, would hold a press conference later tonight to fully brief the media about the doctor’s recovery.
The spokesperson to the Minister of Health, Dan Nwomeh, also confirmed the development to PREMIUM TIMES.
He became terribly ill on his flight and was rushed to the First Consultant Hospital Obalende, Lagos, where he died on July 24.
Mr. Chukwu had said on Monday that although the Liberian government has apologized for the incidence, it was pertinent to note that Nigeria was free of Ebola Virus until its importation by the Liberian-American.
Mr. Sawyer’s action, he said, has placed unnecessary stress on Nigeria’s health system.
An apparently angry President Goodluck Jonathan also described Mr. Sawyer’s action as “madness”.
Since the Liberian’s death in a Lagos hospital, three other persons who had contact with him have died of the virus.
President Goodluck Jonathan has since declared a national emergency on the disease while the federal health ministry in conjunction with health ministries in the 36 states are working to prevent the spread of the virus, which has killed over 1,000 people in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.
The doctor, whose identity is unclear at this time, was the first Nigerian infected with the virus and had been receiving treatment at the Isolation centre.
The Director of Communication and Community Mobilisation for the Nigerian Emergency Operation Centre on Ebola Virus Disease, Adebayo Onajole, confirmed to PREMIUM TIMES that the doctor had been discharged.
He however declined to give further details, saying the Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, would hold a press conference later tonight to fully brief the media about the doctor’s recovery.
The spokesperson to the Minister of Health, Dan Nwomeh, also confirmed the development to PREMIUM TIMES.
“Yes, yes, that’s true. I’ll send you a statement on that immediately,” Mr. Nwomeh said.
The patient, PREMIUM TIMES understands, was discharged
following series of laboratory investigations that declared him fit to
go home.
Nigeria has recorded 10 cases of the disease out of which
four people have died; six persons were quarantined while169 others have
been kept under surveillance.
The patient was among the six people receiving treatment at a Lagos treatment centre.
The Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu had on Thursday
told journalists that some of the patients were already responding to
treatment.
Nigeria was free of Ebola until July 20 when Mr. Sawyer arrived.He became terribly ill on his flight and was rushed to the First Consultant Hospital Obalende, Lagos, where he died on July 24.
Mr. Chukwu had said on Monday that although the Liberian government has apologized for the incidence, it was pertinent to note that Nigeria was free of Ebola Virus until its importation by the Liberian-American.
Mr. Sawyer’s action, he said, has placed unnecessary stress on Nigeria’s health system.
An apparently angry President Goodluck Jonathan also described Mr. Sawyer’s action as “madness”.
Since the Liberian’s death in a Lagos hospital, three other persons who had contact with him have died of the virus.
President Goodluck Jonathan has since declared a national emergency on the disease while the federal health ministry in conjunction with health ministries in the 36 states are working to prevent the spread of the virus, which has killed over 1,000 people in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.
The doctor who treated Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian-American who
brought Ebola into the country, at First Consultant Hospital, and was
subsequently infected with the virus, has recovered and has been
discharged from the Isolation centre in Lagos.
The doctor, whose identity is unclear at this time, was the first Nigerian infected with the virus and had been receiving treatment at the Isolation centre.
The Director of Communication and Community Mobilisation for the Nigerian Emergency Operation Centre on Ebola Virus Disease, Adebayo Onajole, confirmed to PREMIUM TIMES that the doctor had been discharged.
He however declined to give further details, saying the Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, would hold a press conference later tonight to fully brief the media about the doctor’s recovery.
The spokesperson to the Minister of Health, Dan Nwomeh, also confirmed the development to PREMIUM TIMES.
He became terribly ill on his flight and was rushed to the First Consultant Hospital Obalende, Lagos, where he died on July 24.
Mr. Chukwu had said on Monday that although the Liberian government has apologized for the incidence, it was pertinent to note that Nigeria was free of Ebola Virus until its importation by the Liberian-American.
Mr. Sawyer’s action, he said, has placed unnecessary stress on Nigeria’s health system.
An apparently angry President Goodluck Jonathan also described Mr. Sawyer’s action as “madness”.
Since the Liberian’s death in a Lagos hospital, three other persons who had contact with him have died of the virus.
President Goodluck Jonathan has since declared a national emergency on the disease while the federal health ministry in conjunction with health ministries in the 36 states are working to prevent the spread of the virus, which has killed over 1,000 people in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.
The doctor, whose identity is unclear at this time, was the first Nigerian infected with the virus and had been receiving treatment at the Isolation centre.
The Director of Communication and Community Mobilisation for the Nigerian Emergency Operation Centre on Ebola Virus Disease, Adebayo Onajole, confirmed to PREMIUM TIMES that the doctor had been discharged.
He however declined to give further details, saying the Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, would hold a press conference later tonight to fully brief the media about the doctor’s recovery.
The spokesperson to the Minister of Health, Dan Nwomeh, also confirmed the development to PREMIUM TIMES.
“Yes, yes, that’s true. I’ll send you a statement on that immediately,” Mr. Nwomeh said.
The patient, PREMIUM TIMES understands, was discharged
following series of laboratory investigations that declared him fit to
go home.
Nigeria has recorded 10 cases of the disease out of which
four people have died; six persons were quarantined while169 others have
been kept under surveillance.
The patient was among the six people receiving treatment at a Lagos treatment centre.
The Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu had on Thursday
told journalists that some of the patients were already responding to
treatment.
Nigeria was free of Ebola until July 20 when Mr. Sawyer arrived.He became terribly ill on his flight and was rushed to the First Consultant Hospital Obalende, Lagos, where he died on July 24.
Mr. Chukwu had said on Monday that although the Liberian government has apologized for the incidence, it was pertinent to note that Nigeria was free of Ebola Virus until its importation by the Liberian-American.
Mr. Sawyer’s action, he said, has placed unnecessary stress on Nigeria’s health system.
An apparently angry President Goodluck Jonathan also described Mr. Sawyer’s action as “madness”.
Since the Liberian’s death in a Lagos hospital, three other persons who had contact with him have died of the virus.
President Goodluck Jonathan has since declared a national emergency on the disease while the federal health ministry in conjunction with health ministries in the 36 states are working to prevent the spread of the virus, which has killed over 1,000 people in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.
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