Nigerian nurse dies of Ebola •FG confirms 7 new cases
2014-08-06 12:00
Tribune
The minister of health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, has confirmed the death on Tuesday, of a Nigerian nurse who was infected with the Ebola virus.
He also confirmed seven new cases, two days after the minister broke the news that a Nigerian doctor who treated the Liberian-American patient had also been infected with the virus.
The female nurse, whose name was not disclosed yet, was said to be working at a hospital at Obalende, Lagos State.
"Yesterday, 5th August, 2014, the first known Nigerian to die of the EVD was recorded and this was one of the nurses that attended to the Liberian. The other five cases are currently being treated at the isolation ward in Lagos.
"The 24/7 emergency operations centre will be fully functional tomorrow. It will be headed by Dr Faisal Shuaibu as the incident manager. He will later today lead a six-man inter-agency team drawn from the National Primary Health Care Development Agency and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to Lagos to complete the setting up of the centre.
"They will be joined by the other personnel from Lagos state government and the federal hospitals in the Lagos area as well as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control.
"We are making arrangements to procure isolation tents to quicken the pace of providing isolation wards in all states of the federation and the federal capital territory.
"We are also setting up a special team to provide counselling and psychosocial support to patients, identified contacts and their families," the minister at a press briefing in Abuja.
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