SAN FRANCISCO, August 18, (THEWILL) – Four more patients infected with the Ebola disease have been released from the quarantine ward at the Mainland Hospital in Lagos after they were certified free of the disease by experts, health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said in a statement Monday.
Those discharged are two male doctors, a nurse and a female patient who contracted the disease at First Consultant Hospital in Lagos.
The three medical personnel participated in the treatment of the Liberian/American, Patrick Sawyer, who was the first person to die of the disease, at the First Consultant Hospital, while the fourth person was a female patient at the time Sawyer case was admitted at the hospital.
“The Minister of Health Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu has announced that four additional confirmed cases of Ebola Virus Disease who have been managed successfully and are now disease free have been discharged home today.
“They include two male medical doctors and one female nurse. The three participated in the treatment of the index case while the fourth person was a female patient at the time the index case was on admission.
“This brings to five the total number of patients diagnosed with Ebola Virus Disease who have now been discharged from hospital,” the statement said.
A female doctor who had also contracted the disease from the same hospital was discharged Weekend after she was treated and healed of the disease.
Only 12 cases of confirmed infections remained, according to the Minister, while the number of deaths from the disease in Nigeria are 4.
He said 189 persons are still under surveillance in Lagos and 6 in Enugu.
