Thursday 14 August 2014

Another nurse dies in Lagos, as doctor tests positive!

Four people have reportedly died in Nigeria since Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer brought the virus to the country. Information revealed that another nurse who attended to Patrick Sawyer, at the First Consultant Hospital has died.

The nurse, who had been at the B Ward - a male ward which is now referred to as Ebola Ward - of the Yaba Mainland General Hospital, died in the early hours of Thursday.
Relatives of the deceased who are at the hospital were seen wiping away tears and making telephone calls at about p.m on Thursday when she supposedly passed.

Late Ms. Ejelonu, one of the nurses who treated Liberian Patrick Sawyer [Photo Credit: Kalu
The state Commissioner for Health Jide Idris, who was at the hospital declined to confirm the development on the development. 
News of the passing of the nurse came as the Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, disclosed at a news conference in Abuja that another of the doctors who treated the late Patrick Sawyer has tested positive to the deadly virus.
The death of the nurse brings to four the number of people who have died of the virus in Nigeria.

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