Two male doctors, a female nurse and a
patient, infected with Ebola Virus Disease
have been discharged from the quarantine
unit of the Emergency Operation Centre,
EOC, at the Mainland Hospital, Yaba, Lagos.
They were discharged today, August 18
according to a statement by the Minister of
Health’s Special Assistant on Media and
Communication, Mr. Dan Nwomeh.
The four persons were discharged after
being certified free of the disease, Punch
reports.
The statement reads in part: “ 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.”
This bring to five the number of those who
have survived the deadly Ebola Virus
Diseaase (EVD) in Nigeria.
It would be recalled that one person had
been discharged on Saturday. The Lagos
sate governor disclosed that 61 of the
patients who were quarantined over Ebola
have been released .