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First Ebola Victim Discharged by Nobody: 7:10am On Aug 17, 2014
*Total of 12 EVD cases, four deaths. five recovering
* 189 under surveillance in Lagos, six in Enugu
* new 40-bed isolation ward in operation
* Nano Silver dropped, other candidate drugs under
evaluation
The first Nigerian Ebola patient has been discharged
from the quarantine unit of the Emergency
Operation Centre, EOC, at the Mainland Hospital,
Yaba, Lagos.
News of the discharge of the unnamed female
doctor, who was one of the primary contacts of the
late American-Liberian Patrick Sawyer, was broken,
yesterday evening, by Minister of Health, Prof.
Onyebuchi Chukwu .
Chukwu, accompanied by Lagos State Commissioner
for Health, Dr Jide Idris, and others on the Joint
Federal/State EVD response team, to give an update
on the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Nigeria, said the
discharged patient had been given a clean bill of
health to go home
His words : “The EOC has advised me to announce
that the first Nigerian to be confirmed to have Ebola
Virus Disease has this evening been discharged from
the isolation unit at the Mainland Hospital, Lagos.
“I have consulted with the experts, and they said
clearly that there was a discharge protocol that was
employed for this particular patient. It has been
followed strictly and was concluded today and what
you are getting now is the final outcome.
“Ordinarily, if she had been afflicted with another
illness, she would have been discharged long before
now”.
Earlier, the minister pointed out that five of other
Ebola patients had almost fully recovered.
“The total number of confirmed cases of EVD in the
country was now 12, with four deaths and 189
under surveillance in Lagos and six in Enugu,” he
stated.
Responding to questions concerning the welfare of
the Ebola victims under the care of the response
team at the EOC , Chukwu allayed the fear regarding
the standard and quality of care.
“As you are aware, the patients under treatment
have now been moved to the new 40-bed capacity
isolation ward provided by Lagos State government.
Additional equipment has also been made available to
the new isolation ward by the Federal Government”.
On the controversy surrounding the experimental
Ebola drug being proposed for adoption by the
Federal Government, the minister said the drug
failed to meet the requirements for approval.
“You will recall that, last Thursday, I announced
that we were ready to deploy an experimental drug,
Nano Silver; it was not cleared by the National
Health Research Ethics Committee.
“Although the drug has since been made available to
the EOC in Lagos, it has not been administered on
any patient because we were awaiting clearance
by the National Health Research Ethics Committee.
“I regret to inform you that the drug did not meet
the requirements of the National Health Research
Ethics Code. Accordingly, approval for its use was
withheld by the National Health Research Ethics
Committee.”
The minister, however, informed that the other
candidate drugs were under evaluation by the
Treatment Research Group for EVD.
“As soon as any of the experimental drugs is cleared
by the National Health Research Ethics Committee
and made available, we shall incident it in the
treatment regeneration subject to the informed
consent of the patient,” he stated.
Ebola may escalate
In the meantime, the Nigerian Medical Association
(NMA), yesterday, said Ebola may escalate in the
country as majority of the health personnel working
on the management, monitoring and surveillance
have been sacked.
NMA warned about the risk of the deadly virus
spreading at an alarming rate following the sack of
16,000 resident doctors, most of whom were said to
be involved in the move to contain the virus.
The NMA said the doctors, although on strike, had
made their services available to government in the
bid to combat Ebola.
The association vowed not to resume talks with
government until it unconditionally reverses the
sack of the doctors.
The Chairman, Lagos State branch of the NMA, Dr
Tope Ojo, who disclosed the association’s stand in
Lagos, yesterday, said all attempts by government
to divide the NMA would be resisted by the
association.
“This sack action must have proven the unrepentant
hatred of Mr. President and the Federal Government
for doctors, considering that since this current
regime, several unions have embarked on industrial
actions for even longer periods, that witnessed
several failed negotiations too, before eventual
resolution and same punitive actions were never
applied,” the NMA said at a press conference.
The body, however, urged its members to keep
volunteering in the management of Ebola.
“This would further worsen the current Ebola
scourge because a large majority of volunteers
involved in case management and other levels of the
Ebola Emergency Response Committee are resident
doctors,” Ojo said..
“However, we will continue to participate in the
Ebola Response as we have been doing, in spite of
the purported sack, so as not to become insensitive
to the plight of Nigerians like the Federal
Government is demonstrating presently”.
No Ebola death at Lagos General Hospital – State
govt
In a related development, Lagos State government,
yesterday, said there was no death of any person
infected with Ebola at the Alimosho General
Hospital, Igando or any of its hospitals. In a
statement by the state Commissioner for
Information and Strategy, Mr Lateef Ibirogba, the
state government dispelled the rumour making the
rounds that an Ebola infected person had died at the
government owned hospital in Alimosho. He said the
state Commissioner for Health, Dr Jide Idris,
addressed the issue during the last Ebola update
press briefing, where he assured residents of Lagos
that the hospital was safe and medically sound for
them to patronize.
As part of the measures to contain the spread of
Ebola, the state government, through the Ministry
of the Environment, MOE, also yesterday, trained
about 800 health workers and volunteers in all the
57 local governments and local council development
areas on preventive measures.
Commissioner for the Environment, Mr Tunji Bello,
who made the disclosure at a sensitisation campaign
tagged: “Train the trainers’ Educative programme”,
also said that government would not hesitate to
invoke any relevant section of the laws on anyone
who flouts the environmental laws.
The commissioner warned residents to desist from
unsafe and unhealthy practices so as not to
contract EVD, urging them not to attempt hiding
persons with suspected symptoms of Ebola as
government has the right to quarantine or isolate
such persons to prevent the disease from spreading.
OSOGBO FESTIVAL: Osun stops tourists
Reports from Osun State, yesterday, said that
following the outbreak of Ebola in the country, the
state government barred tourists from
participating in the forthcoming Osun Osogbo annual
festival.
This, the government said, was part of measures to
prevent the spread of Ebola to the state.
Addressing a press conference in Osogbo, the state
Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr
Sunday Akere, noted that efforts were being taken
by the state government to make Osun an Ebola
free state.
Akere, who lamented the high spread of the Ebola
virus, stressed the need for traditionalists,
especially Osun devotees, to co-operate with the
state government in its bid to prevent the spread of
the deadly disease.
According to him, this year’s Osun Osogbo festival
would be low keyed, but with all traditional rites and
sacrifices by the Osun devotees in Osogbo alone.
He explained that the state government had
restricted the movement of non-residents of Osun
to the state, saying this would help to prevent the
spread of the disease.
Kwara dismisses Ebola claim
Also, yesterday, Senior Special Assistant to
Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed on Primary Health, Prof
Sunday Opabola, said there was no case of Ebola in
the state, saying the patient that was referred to
as having the disease was a case of mismanaged
malaria fever.
Speaking on a local radio programme in Ilorin,
Opabola said,”We took the blood samples of the boy
and his mother and sent them to the Lagos
University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) for screening.
Unfortunately, we lost the boy.
“But the fortunate thing is that the results of the
boy’s and mother’s tests came in yesterday night
from LUTH and they were negative.
” So I am happy to tell Kwarans that up till now we
don’t have any report of a suspicious case not to
talk about confirmed case. I can say that the boy’s
case was a mismanaged malaria disease in the first
hospital”.
Recalling the incident that led to the development,
he said: “The history we later got was that when
they could dehydrate him intravenously in the first
hospital, they gave him an intubation (putting a
tube through the nose into the stomach) to feed
him. When he was not responding, they removed the
tube and transferred him to the paediatrician
hospital in town and the first vomiting the boy had
contained blood. Intubation can cause bleeding from
the stomach and that is exact what happened.
Source:” http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/first-nigerian-ebola-virus-patient-discharged-from-hospital/

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