The Minister of Health in Nigeria, Professor
Onyebuchi Chukwu, says the first Nigerian Ebola patient declared fit and discharged from hospital.
Professor Chukwu told journalists in Lagos on Saturday that the
patient, whose identity has not been revealed, was asked to go home
after all the necessary medical examinations were carried out.
“The total number of Ebola cases now stands at 12, while the number of deaths remains four.
The people under surveillance in Lagos is now 189, while six are in Enugu, in southeast
Nigeria,” Professor Chukwu said.
The minister also announced that the drug, Nano Silva, which was
thought could be used to treat Ebola patients in Nigeria, was said not
to have met the requirements of the National Health Research ethics
code.
His statement is coming two days after the death of a fourth Ebola patient was reported.
In
an effort to contain the spread of the virus, the Lagos State
government, the only state in Nigeria with reported cases of Ebola, had
provided an isolation unit to accommodate persons who tested
positive to the virus. At a press conference in Abuja on
Thursday Professor Chukwu, said eight persons
were still alive, more than half of them are doing
very well and actually showing signs of recovery …
under treatment,” Prof Chukwu said. The discharged patient is believed to be among
those he earlier said were recovering. The World Health Organization has called this Ebola
outbreak, whose worst affected countries include
Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, an international
emergency. It has killed around 55 to 60 per cent
of those who have contracted the disease. President Goodluck Jonathan last week declared
the Ebola outbreak in Lagos State a national
emergency and approved an intervention fund of
1.9 billion Naira to contain the disease
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