BREAKING NEWS: Nigeria records firstEbola survivorAugust 16, 2014 The doctor who treated Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian-American who brought Ebola into the country, at First Consultant Hospital, and was subsequently infected with the virus, has recovered and has since been discharged from the Isolation centre in Lagos.Ameyo Adadevoh, a senior consultant, was the first Nigerian infected with the virus and had been receiving treatment at the Isolation centre.The Director of Communication and Community Mobilisation forthe Nigerian Emergency Operation Centre on Ebola VirusDisease, Adebayo Onajole, confirmed to PREMIUM TIMES that Adadevoh had been discharged.He however declined to give further details, saying the Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, wo uld hold a press conference later tonight to fully brief the media about the doctor’s recovery.The spokesperson to the Minister of Health, Dan Nwomeh, also confirmed the development to PREMIUM TIMES.“Yes, yes, that’s true. I’ll send you a statement on that immediately,” Mr. Nwomeh said.The patient, PREMIUM TIMES understands, was discharged following series of laboratory investigations that declared himfit to go home.Nigeria has recorded 10 cases ofthe disease out of which four people have died; six persons were quarantined while169 others have been kept under surveillance.The patient was among the six people receiving treatment at a Lagos treatment centre.The Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu had on Thursday told journalists that some of the patients were already responding to treatment.
Posted on: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 03:37:03 +0000
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