UPDATE: Ebola patient discharged in Lagos, declared fit AUGUST 16, 2014 BY CHANNELSTV The first female doctor to be infected with the Ebola Virus Disease, has been discharged from the quarantine unit of the Emergency Operation Centre of the Mainland Hospital, Yaba, Lagos State. The Minister of Health, Prof Onyebuchi Chukwu, who disclosed this at a press briefing in Lagos on Saturday, said the female doctor was one of the doctors that had primary contact with the late American- Liberian Patrick Sawyer, who died of the Ebola Virus Disease in Lagos. Chukwu, who was accompanied by the Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Dr Jide Idris, said the discharged patient had been given a clean bill of health by experts managing confirmed cases. According to them, she is the first patient to have survived the deadly disease in Nigeria. Chukwu said, “The EOC has advised me to announce that the first Nigerian to have been confirmed to have the 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 say clearly that there is 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.” The minister stated that the health of the other five patients in isolation was improving.
Posted on: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 21:25:50 +0000
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