Four more Ebola patients discharged – Health Minister

Four more patients have been certified clean
and discharged from the Ebola Isolation center
in Lagos after undergoing treatment for the

deadly disease. The four patients include two
male doctors, the nurse who had earlier
escaped from the isolation center and ran to
Enugu and a female patient who was on
admission at the time Patrick Sawyer was
hospitalized at the First Consultant Hospital.
The news of their discharge was disclosed in a
statement released today by the Minister of
Health, Prof Onyebuchi Chukwu and signed by
his his Special Assistant on Media and
Communication , Mr. Dan Nwomeh. Read parts
of the statement after the cut...
“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.”
On Saturday August 16th, the Health Minister
announced that the first Nigerian to be
diagnosed of EVD, a female doctor, had been
discharged after she was treated and certified
cured.
The Minister also stated that the total number
of cases of the Ebola Virus Disease in Nigeria
remained at 12 while the number of deaths
from the disease was four and that the
number of people under surveillance in Lagos
is 189 while in Enugu is 6.