A doctor in Nigeria’s city of Port Harcourt, who secretly treated a diplomat who had contact with the first case of the disease in Nigeria, has died of Ebola.
This is the country’s first Ebola death outside Lagos and the sixth fatality in Nigeria.
Health
Ministry spokesman, Dan Nwomeh, confirmed that the doctor had treated a
primary contact of Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian-American who brought
Ebola to Lagos.
Health
Minister, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, also said that the doctor had died
on August 22, but the results of the tests have only just been made
public.
Controversy, however, trail the number of people under surveillance. The Health Minister said that 70 people are under surveillance in the city, while his wife has been put under quarantine.
However,
the Rivers State Commissioner of Health, Dr. Samson Parker, said that
100 contact persons are under surveillance and that a 24-hour
surveillance has been declared on all contacts, including patients of
the late Dr Iyke Enemoah.
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