Four more patients have been certified clean and
discharged from the Ebola Isolation center in Lagos
after undergoing treatment for the deadly disease.
The four patients include two male doctors, the
nurse who had earlier escaped from the isolation
center and ran to Enugu and a female patient who
was on admission at the time Patrick Sawyer was
hospitalized at the First Consultant Hospital.
The news of their discharge was disclosed in a
statement released today by the Minister of Health,
Prof Onyebuchi Chukwu and signed by his his
Special Assistant on Media and Communication , Mr.
Dan Nwomeh. Read parts of the statement after the
cut.
“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. They include
two male medical doctors and one female nurse.
The three participated in the treatment of the
index case while the fourth person was a female
patient at the time the index case was on
admission. This brings to five the total number of
patients diagnosed with Ebola Virus Disease who
have now been discharged from hospital.”
On Saturday August 16th, the Health Minister
announced that the first Nigerian to be diagnosed of
EVD, a female doctor, had been discharged after
she was treated and certified cured.
The Minister also stated that the total number of
cases of the Ebola Virus Disease in Nigeria
remained at 12 while the number of deaths from
the disease was four and that the number of people
under surveillance in Lagos is 189 while in Enugu is
6.
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