Nigerian female doctor tests positive to Ebola




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By Sola Ogundipe, Health Editor, Olasunkanmi Akoni, Chioma Obinna, Lawani Mikairu, Victoria Ojeme, Monsur Olowoopejo, Raphael Izokpu &  Gabriel Olawale

ABUJA—The Federal Government has affirmed the first instance of Ebola Virus Disease in a Nigerian restorative specialist, who was among the individuals that had the first contact with Mr. Patrick Sawyer, the expired Liberian and initially affirmed Ebola exploited person in the nation.


Late Sawyer, an advisor to the Liberian Finance Ministry was discovered to be contaminated with the infection when he arrived Lagos on July 20, 2014. He kicked the bucket in isolate on July 25 and his body was later cremated.

Uncovering the improvement to newsmen in Abuja, yesterday, Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu said the new case was as a consequence of contact the said specialist had with Sawyer at the Lagos doctor's facility, where the Liberian was conceded after he was gotten from the airplane terminal.

Additionally talking, Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, joined by the Director, Nigeria Center for Disease Control, NCDC, Prof. Abdulsalam Nasidi, affirmed that it would be the second reported instance of the infection in Nigeria when all is said in done and Lagos specifically.

Chukwu, who was initiating the Treatment Research Group Committee on Ebola Virus Disease, uncovered: "When we met a week ago, I let you know that we were all the while observing a percentage of the medicinal services laborers and travelers who interacted with the American-Liberian who got Ebola to Nigeria. There were other people who went to him; some have created side effects of Ebola.

Starting today, we now have a case; this is the second instance of Ebola infection in Nigeria. This is the specialist who went to the Ebola persistent in the Lagos clinic."

Observing

Further, he said:  "Three others are under watch; at the end of today (yesterday) we will know the conclusion. Eight of the individuals who had contact with Mr. Sawyer have been isolated, while 70 of the individuals who had contact with the patient are on observation.

"These persons are constantly isolated in Lagos, where the Lagos State Government has given separation wards."

The clergyman said past Lagos State, the Federal Government was working with each one state to fortify separation wards and crisis coordination of wellbeing workforce on Ebola around the outskirts.

He noted that places like Idiroko and Seme outskirts have gotten new orders and supplies to screen persons entering the nation without having contact with such persons.

On the part of accumulating cadavers from Ebola -endemic nations for entombment in Nigeria, Chukwu said the Federal Government's request banning any air transport or relatives from bringing dead persons from  Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone was still in power.

"On account of Imo State, we have completed the examination and figured out that there is a passing testament and it was not an Ebola case, so we have approached the Commissioner for Health in Imo State to happen with the entombment of the individual. However for Anambra State and Akwa Ibom states, examination is as of now going on. They are still under watch," he said.

Cautioning on false cures

Chukwu, who objected to the frenzy being made on social networking stages, fought that in opposition to generally held feeling on online networking that Bitter Kola was a suitable cure and also forestalls disease by Ebola infection, the priest focused on that there was no experimental proof that the utilization of Bitter Kola cures or counteracts Ebola diseases.

"There is no evidence yet," he insisted, noting that such claims exuded from past "in-vitro research, which is in a test-tube (progressing) where the examples were gotten from Bitter Kola, and have a tendency to have a few exercises against Ebola.

Council on EVD

On the route forward, the Federal Government has initiated the Treatment Research  Committee on Ebola Virus Disease.

Initiating the advisory group, Chukwu watched that Nigeria must quit fooling around in the region of examination as a key method for abridging the spread of the infection.

The advisory group has the Director-General of the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Research and Development NIPRD, Prof. Karniyus Gamaliel and the Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, NIMR, Prof. Blameless Ujah as co-Chairmen Former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Maurice Iwu is a part. Others incorporate Prof. Abdulsalam Nasidi of the National Center for Disease Control, NCDC,  Dr Sani Gwarzo of the Port Health Services,  Director of Public Health, Federal Ministry of Health, Dr. Bridget Okoeguela and Director of Health Planning and Research, Mrs. Asa Ogu. The terms of reference of the council incorporate coordination of exploration on treatment and avoidance of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD); get and check cases of Ebola infection; to order all related examination discoveries as far and wide as possible on Ebola and exhort government as may be proper on the matter.

Segregation & treatment focuses

Talking in Lagos, the state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, included that the state has created disconnection and treatment focuses to hospitalize the patients for strict reconnaissance.

"From our exercises to stem the spread of Ebola infection in Nigeria, an alternate patient has tried positive for the infection. The female specialist is one of the eight persons who were under basic reconnaissance and watch over having contact with the late Liberian, Mr. Patrick Sawyer, who kicked the bucket in the wake of being contaminated by the infection.

"The state has created a disconnection and treatment focus to hospitalize this patient. The staff at this Center have likewise been prepared on the most proficient method to treat and handle the patients under their consideration. The healing center is likewise furnished with enough offices to guarantee that the authorities and different patients don't contact the infection.

"The patients under our observation were the individuals who had particular contact with the late Liberian. Also t

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