Four more people who had been undergoing treatment for the Ebola Virus
Disease were on Monday discharged from the Lagos treatment centre after being
certified free.
The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, made this known in a
statement that was issued on Monday after Natural Solutions
Foundation, the manufacturers of Nano Silver,claimed that the drug was the only
one capable of curing the deadly virus.
Chukwu said in the statement by his Special Assistant on
Media and Communication, Mr. Dan Nwomeh, that the four discharged
persons comprised two male medical doctors, a female nurse and a
female patient.
He explained that the three medical personnel participated in the
treatment of the Liberian-American, Patrick Sawyer, who was the first person to
die of the disease in Nigeria.
The fourth , according to him, was at the First Consultant
Hospital, Obalende, Lagos when Sawyer’s case was being managed.
The statement read, “The Minister of Health has announced that four
additional confirmed cases of EVD who have been managed successfully and are
now disease free have been discharged today(Monday).
“They include two male medical doctors and one female nurse. The three
participated in the treatment of the index case(Sawyer) 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 EVD
who have now been discharged from hospital.”
Chukwu had on Saturday, announced that a female doctor , who was the
first Nigerian to be diagnosed of EVD, had been discharged .
He had also said that Nigeria had recorded 12 cases of EVD, including
four deaths. The number of Nigerians under surveillance
in Lagos and Enugu, according to him, is 195.
The minister added that the patients under treatment had been moved to
the new 40-bed capacity isolation ward provided by the Lagos State Government.