The Minister for Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu has confirmed that the Lagos nurse infected with Ebola virus who fled to Enugu against medical advice is now back in Lagos and is under quarantine with her husband.
They are said to have been transported back to Lagos in a special ambulance. The suspect, identified as a nurse, said to have travelled to her home town to visit her family, is now under surveillance with 20 others she came into contact with in the city.
Meanwhile a Lagos medical doctor who attended to Patrick Sawyer at the First Consultant Hospital has also tested positive to the deadly Ebola virus.
Speaking at a news conference today, the Nigerian Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu said the doctor is currently undergoing treatment at the quarantine centre in Lagos.
Prof Onyebuchi revealed that some of the 169 secondary contacts of Sawyer were no longer under surveillance and had been released, having completed the 21 days of incubation period.
The Minister also said the nurse who had escaped the quarantine center in Lagos and traveled to Enugu state has been returned back to Lagos with her husband in a special traveling ambulance.
‘In Enugu yesterday, there were 21 secondary contacts with the nurse. But after investigations, there are only 6 secondary contacts now. The nurse who is newly wedded had no symptoms of the disease when she traveled to Enugu. She was transported back to Lagos in a special ambulance with her husband. Her husband is under quarantine now” the minister said
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