A doctor, who secretly treated a diplomat who had contact with the index case, Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer, has died of Ebola in Nigeria.
The doctor, who has yet to be named, died on Friday. His wife has also taken ill and has been quarantined in Port Harcourt. Interestingly, the diplomat treated by the doctor is still alive.The diplomat, who was part of the team who met with Patrick Sawyer in Lagos, flew to Port Harcourt, Rivers State for treatment, evading Nigerian federal government surveillance for the disease. The late doctor then took him to a hotel for treatment.
As a result of this, 70 people have been quarantined. The doctor's hospital, Good Heart Hospital in Rivers State, has been shut down. The unnamed hotel, where the secret treatment took place, has also been shut down.
The Minister of Health and the Rivers State government are expected to make a statement on the incident tomorrow.
The Minister of Health and the Rivers State government are expected to make a statement on the incident tomorrow.
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Too bad!
ReplyDeleteRIP O!
ReplyDeleteGosh.
ReplyDeleteY won't he die, now he's put everybody living in ph in to panic, stupid and selfish doc, secretly treated an EVD patient in a hotel room. #idiot.
ReplyDeleteIt's now 215 ppl.not 70
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