Tuesday, 19 August 2014

EBOLA UPDATE: FOUR VICTIMS DISCHARGED, U.S. TO PARTNER WITH NIGERIA TO FIGHT EBOLA





According to MDB, the Minister of health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, has today said that four patients undergoing treatment for the deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) have been discharged .
Those discharged include two male medical doctors and a female nurse who helped to treat the index case Patrick Sawyer.
This brings to five the total number of patients diagnosed with Ebola Virus Disease who have now been discharged from hospital.

Meanwhile, the United States of America has pledge to collaborate with Nigeria in containing the spread of the Ebola Virus. The U.S Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr James Entwistle said this on Monday after a close door meeting with the Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu. Though the Ambassador was not specific on the kind of help it would render or whether the Ebola experimental drug will be given to Nigeria.

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