Ebola Heats Port-Harcourt City, Doctor Involve.

Ebola Heats Port-Harcourt City, Doctor Involve.

Posted by Sylvester on Thursday, August 28, 2014 0

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RIVERS State capital Port Harcourt has had one confirmed fatality from ebola after a doctor who treated a diplomat who was in contact with Liberian Patrick Sawyer died from the virus yesterday.

Up until now, the ebola virus disease (EVD) has been confined to Lagos but one of the doctors who treated infected patients travelled to Port Harcourt and has since died. He fell ill and was kept in an isolation unit where he passed away, although, interestingly, the diplomat the doctor treated is still alive.

Health authorities in Rivers State are now keeping a watchful eye on developments, with Governor Rotimi Amaechi cancelling a proposed tour of Obio-Akpor Local Government Area yesterday to remain on top of the situation. Already, the late doctor's wife has been quarantined in Port Harcourt after she took ill too.

According to Rivers State health officials, the doctor who travelled into Port Harcourt from Lagos, had treated the diplomat at a hotel after he complained of being ill after being in touch with Mr Sawyer. His Good Heart Hospital in Rivers State, has been shut down, as has been the hotel where he treated the diplomat.

With this latest development, across Nigeria, a total 70 people have now been quarantined over EVD. Following the doctor's death, six people have died from the virus in Nigeria, including Mr Sawyer and two doctors.