The first confirmed Ebola Virus Disease,
EVD, case that was also one of the three persons
quarantined in Oduoha, Emohua Local Government
Area, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has died of the
disease.
The deceased, an elderly woman, is the seventh Ebola
fatality to be recorded in the country, and the
first death in the new Port Harcourt isolation
centre for Ebola.
She was said to have shared the same room with
late Dr. Iyke Enemuo, the doctor who treated the
Nigerian ECOWAS diplomat, Koye Olu-Ibukun at the
Good Heart Hospital, Port Harcourt, prior to the
death of the former from EVD.
It could be recalled that the late woman was
quarantined with a doctor and a pharmacist, who
were staff of Sam Steel Clinic, a health facility
founded by late Enemuo.
However, following several tests ran on the duo,
it was discovered that they were free from Ebola
and were given a clean bill of health. Though
reports say they were still under medical
surveillance.
Presenting an update on the status of EVD, in
Nigeria, Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi
Chukwu, disclosed that the eighth Ebola patient
successfully managed in the Lagos isolation centre
was discharged Tuesday.
Chukwu, who gave the number of cases
successfully managed and discharged in the country
as eight, explained that the last case to be
discharged, (the eighth case) was the first
secondary contact to be diagnosed, adding that the
patient is a spouse of a primary contact of the
index (first) case.
He said: “Total number of cases successfully
managed and discharged is now eight. The last case
to be discharged, the first secondary contact to be
diagnosed and a spouse of a primary contact of
the index case, went home from the isolation ward
in Lagos yesterday (Tuesday). The ninth survivor is
the ECOWAS Commission official who jumped
surveillance in Lagos and travelled to Port
Harcourt where he infected the doctor who attended
to him.”
Chukwu who hinted that schools may re-open from
September 15, 2014 as last contacts under
surveillance may be discharged by then and the
fact that there were no community transmissions
in Nigeria, stressed that the 18th confirmed case of
Ebola in Nigeria is the sister of the late Port
Harcourt doctor, who is currently on admission
in the Lagos isolation centre.
He said: “Total number of deaths from Ebola Virus
Disease in Nigeria is now seven. One is the index
(first) case, which occurred in a private hospital
in Lagos; four in the Lagos isolation ward, one in
the Port Harcourt isolation ward, the female
patient who was on admission in the same hospital
where the late Port Harcourt doctor was also
admitted, while another one was the doctor who
was infected by the ECOWAS Commission official in
Port Harcourt and who did not come under the
care and management of the Incident Management
Committee.”
The total number of EVD patients currently under
treatment, according to the Minister, is two; one
in the Lagos isolation ward and another one in the
Port Harcourt isolation ward.
On contacts, Chukwu said 41 contacts are
currently under surveillance in Lagos while Port
Harcourt has 296.

Source: www.vanguardngr.com/2014/09/another-ebola-victim-dies-p-harcourt/

Lord have mercy!!