Happy New Year 2024 to all our members and visitors! Our Forum is Now Back Online After Some Critical Upgrade- We Apologize for the inaccessibility Period! Thank You all. CORONAVIRUS safety tips from Admin! 1. Watch your hands with running water 2. Dont cough in your hands 3. Keep distance from people 4. Stay indoor if neccessary!! Stay safe !!! Dear Members,Do you know that naijacrux is fully programmed to serve you better, Do you know that you can share your favorite post on naijacrux with friends on twitter,facebook, googleplus,myspace and many more! To share post on naijacrux with friends and family on twitter, facebook,googleplus,myspace,and many more, scroll to the down page of the post, Click on the Social Icon You Want To Share On To Share.


Author Topic: Ebola: No confirmed case on ground at the moment Nigeria Health Minister  (Read 1858 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline mastercode

  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2946
  • Karma: +0/-0
Loading...


Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu has issued a fresh statement regarding the status of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Nigeria. Chukwu disclosed that as at the moment, there is no confirmed case of the Ebola Virus in any part of the country, as all the cases have now been treated apart from those being investigated.

In the statement Chukwu issued on Wednesday evening, he said the total number of confirmed cases of EVD in Nigeria currently stands at nineteen (19), fifteen (15) in Lagos, four (4) in Port Harcourt.

The statement says ??The total number of deaths from EVD in Nigeria stands at seven (7). Five (5) of this died in Lagos, one (1) in a private hospital, the index case Mr. Sawyer, and the other four (4) in the isolation ward in Lagos State.

?Two of the seven (7) died in Port Harcourt, the medical doctor who died in a private hospital and the contact, a patient in the hospital at the time the doctor was also on admission, who died in the isolation ward in Rivers State.

?The total number of patients who have been successfully managed and discharged is now ten (10). The latest are the sister of the Port Harcourt doctor who was discharged from the isolation ward in Rivers State on 7th September 2014, and the wife of the same doctor who was discharged from the isolation ward in Lagos State yesterday, 9th September 2014. (Please note that the ten (10) patients successfully managed and discharged are among the total number of twelve (12) survivors of EVD in Nigeria).

?At present, there is no single current case of confirmed EVD in Nigeria. However, a suspected case of EVD from Ile-Ife, a university student who had contact with the late Port Harcourt doctor at a naming ceremony in Port Harcourt has been quarantined and is being investigated.

?Regarding contacts currently under surveillance, Lagos now has 16 contacts under surveillance. A total of 350 contacts who were previously on surveillance have been discharged having completed 21 days of observation.??

?Port Harcourt has 490 contacts under surveillance. It is a mixed group consisting of tertiary and quaternary contacts of Mr. Sawyer?s. Sixteen (16) contacts have already been discharged from surveillance in Port Harcourt having completed 21 days of observation.


 

 

Lassa Fever hit Nigeria, Death toll rises to 41 from 93 cases ,Stop Eating Rats

Started by yungcrux

Replies: 0
Views: 1900
Last post January 12, 2016, 11:53:04 PM
by yungcrux
Nigeria FG denies plans to bring London doctors to treat Buhari in Abuja

Started by naij

Replies: 0
Views: 1722
Last post March 31, 2017, 05:52:55 AM
by naij
Nigeria set to commence production of anti-retroviral drugs to battle HIV/AIDS

Started by internet police

Replies: 0
Views: 1773
Last post January 22, 2015, 10:55:56 PM
by internet police
Nigeria APC denied Accusation of General Buhari in London hospital for treatment

Started by internet police

Replies: 0
Views: 2007
Last post February 21, 2015, 03:45:03 PM
by internet police
Nigeria to Launch Environmental Cleanup in the oil-rich Niger Delta region

Started by newspostng

Replies: 0
Views: 1484
Last post March 22, 2016, 06:45:38 AM
by newspostng