Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Dr. Iyke Samuel
Enemuo, Chinyere, who also tested positive for the
virus, has been discharged from the isolation centre,
Oduoha – Emohua.
Rivers State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Sampson
Parker, disclosed this to journalists in Port Harcourt
on Monday morning. He said Chinyere has been
successfully managed and is now negative and
immune to the Ebola virus.
A primary contact of index case, Mr. Patrick Sawyer
and also an ECOWAS official, had evaded
surveillance in the last week of July 2014 and
travelled out of Lagos to Port Harcourt where he
consulted with the late doctor and was allegedly
secretly treated for some symptoms. After four days,
following a manhunt for him, the ECOWAS official
returned to Lagos by which time he was found to be
without symptoms.
However, the doctor died after some days, with
investigation and laboratory analysis showing that
he died from EVD, which he must have contracted
during the secluded treatment. As a result, several
contacts have been traced, registered and placed
under surveillance, including his sister, Chinyere,
who has now been successfully managed and
discharged.
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