A female doctor who was on admission at
the Green Hart hospital where late Port Harcourt doctor, Iyke Enemoah,
was treated after he got infected with the deadly virus by an ECOWAS
official, has tested positive to Ebola.
Minister
of Health, Prof Onyebuchi Chukwu revealed this today September 1st
during a meeting of the National Emergency Council on Ebola outbreak in
Nigeria.
Speaking with all Commissioners for
Health in Nigeria, Prof. Chukwu said the doctor who tested positive to
Ebola is now being treated at the Ebola isolation ward in Rivers state.
This
recent confirmation brings to three the number of confirmed Ebola cases
in Rivers state; the index case which is the ECOWAS official, Oluibukun
Koye; the late Dr Iyke Enemoah who died on Friday August 22nd and the
recently diagnosed female doctor.
Prof Chukwu said more cases of the Ebola Virus Disease were still being expected in Rivers state.
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