400 people under observation in Port Harcourt
.The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control Projector, Dr. Abdulsalami Nasidi told Reuters “Everything about the doctor was in secrecy, he also violated our public health laws by treating a patient with a highly pathogenic agent who revealed to him that he had contact with Ebola and he did not want to be treated in Lagos because he might be put in isolation. “He violated the law by treating him in secrecy outside hospital premises. When he became ill also he did not reveal to his colleagues that he had contact with someone who contracted the virus. He was taken to General Hospital, a public hospital that sees everybody. “That is the only case that effectively escaped our surveillance network. We are paying now for it, Nasidi said the Port Harcourt doctor was visited by friends and family in hospital, including some who “laid hands and hanshake with him”. “As we are talking now, we have more than 380 of such contacts in our dragnet,” he said. Those at high risk are being quarantined, and some 500 volunteers and health care workers are checking on all exposed people twice a day,“So we are monitoring and are sure we shall not miss out on any contacts that come out with infection that could be transmitted. A contact, who has no symptoms doesn’t transmit even if he has the virus. So this is why we are hopeful,”
