The wife of the doctor who died in Port Harcourt after contracting the Ebola Virus Disease is positive and has been transferred to Lagos for treatment, the Commissioner for Health Rivers State has said.
Samson Parker said about 200 people have been traced and put under surveillance, “anyone of them that shows traces will be tested and quarantined, but so far no one has shown traces”
Speaking as a guest by telephone on Channels Television, the Commissioner added that the two cases that were confirmed in the state were the late doctor and his wife.
He noted that his team is carrying out a robust search to find people that have had primary contacts with the affected persons (including the immediate family) in the state and other close states.
The Commissioner also stated that the hospital owned by the late doctor has been deactivated and decontaminated likewise the mortuary where he body was taken to, “ after the decontamination we will announce to the public that this is what happened and the hospital ceases to operate”.
He also mentioned that health workers from within and outside the country are helping to observe these contacts.
Source:- http://www.today.ng/news/rivers-late-doctors-wife-tests-positive-for-ebola-health-commissioner/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rivers-late-doctors-wife-tests-positive-for-ebola-health-commissioner
The wife of the doctor who died in Port Harcourt after contracting the Ebola Virus Disease is positive and has been transferred to Lagos for treatment, the Commissioner for Health Rivers State has said.
Samson Parker said about 200 people have been traced and put under surveillance, “anyone of them that shows traces will be tested and quarantined, but so far no one has shown traces”
Speaking as a guest by telephone on Channels Television, the Commissioner added that the two cases that were confirmed in the state were the late doctor and his wife.
He noted that his team is carrying out a robust search to find people that have had primary contacts with the affected persons (including the immediate family) in the state and other close states.
The Commissioner also stated that the hospital owned by the late doctor has been deactivated and decontaminated likewise the mortuary where he body was taken to, “ after the decontamination we will announce to the public that this is what happened and the hospital ceases to operate”.
He also mentioned that health workers from within and outside the country are helping to observe these contacts.
Source:- http://www.today.ng/news/rivers-late-doctors-wife-tests-positive-for-ebola-health-commissioner/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rivers-late-doctors-wife-tests-positive-for-ebola-health-commissioner
