Ebola:NNPC Doctor Admitted To Hospital For Ebola
A new suspected case of Ebola has surfaced at the Ebola treatment center in Lagos.
A government source told SaharaReporters that a medical doctor at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) clinic in Lagos, who attended to one of the doctors that treated Patrick Sawyer, developed Ebola symptoms.
Interestingly, the suspected victim, a woman, had previously been treated and discharged, later being brought back into quarantine to be observed and retested.
On August 8 of this year, the NNPC clinic in the Muri Okunola area of Victoria Island in Lagos was closed indefinitely, following “pre-emptive” suspicion of an Ebola virus a suspected case of the Ebola virus at the location.
Germany Quarantines Suspected Nigerian Female Ebola Patient
German health authorities Tuesday took to hospital and quarantined a 30-year-old West African woman who showed symptoms consistent with the deadly Ebola disease.Dozens of other visitors and staff at a Berlin employment office building were also stopped from leaving for several hours as emergency services sealed off part of the street.
The mass-circulation Bild daily said the woman had fainted, that she hailed from Nigeria and that she said later that she had recently been in contact with people infected with Ebola.Several people who had been with the woman inside the building in the northeastern district of Prenzlauer Berg were later also taken to hospital for testing.
Berlin fire department spokesman Rolf Erbe said that because the patient came from “an area affected by a highly contagious disease, we took these precautions.”He said the testing in the city’s Charite hospital would take some time.
“The patient was isolated inside the ambulance, the staff took the appropriate protective measures. An emergency medic, the public health officer, arrived and the necessary precautions were taken,” he added.
West Africa’s Ebola epidemic, which has hit four nations since it broke out in Guinea early this year, is by far the deadliest since the virus was discovered four decades ago in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The UN World Health Organization said Tuesday the Ebola virus had killed 84 people in just three days, bringing the global death toll to 1,229, while confirmed, probable and suspect infections rose to 2,240.
Ebola: Two Guineans, one Nigerian under surveilance in Ogun
Ogun State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Olaokun Soyinka, has said that two Guineans and one Nigerian are now on Ebola virus disease observation list at Imeko Afon border area of the state.
He said this at Oke Mosan, Abeokuta on Tuesday while briefing journalists on the preventive measures being taken by the state government.
He said these three travellers who were coming from Guinea last Friday were in the process of crossing over to Nigeria from one of the border entry points when they were accosted by the Port Health Services officials.
He said they could not give satisfactory answer to questions asked on whether they had had contact with patients who had contacted the virus.
Guinea is one of the countries in West Africa, where the scourge of EVD is prevalent.
He explained that the Port Health Services later handed them over to the officials of Imeko Afon Local Government.
Soyinka said, “They were basically turned back, because they could not convince the authorities that they have not been in close contact with patients who have contacted the virus.
They were told that unless they could convince the authorities that they would have to go back or if they were to come to Nigeria, we will have to observe them for a while. So they are still under observation, they are not quarantined.
“They agreed to wait while they are being observed to make sure that they don’t have the symptoms.”
Soyinka said they would be under observation for 21 days.
While he noted that the state was vulnerable due to many international entry points, he added that the government was planning to establish isolation centres in all the 20 local government areas.
Soyinka, however, advised the residents to avoid unnecessary physical contacts and public gathering and travelling to areas where the Ebola epidemic is prevalent among others.