Fifteen persons have been quarantined at
the accident and emergency ward of the University of Calabar Teaching
Hospital after an Ebola Virus Disease scare in the hospital on
Wednesday.
Those quarantined included nine nurses, one doctor, four health workers and one patient.
The EVD scare in the UCTH resulted from
the death of a patient, who was said to have manifested the symptoms of
the killer disease though the hospital authorities said the patient
might have died of any Haemorrhagic fever.
The patient’s identity as of Thursday remained unknown.
Chairman of the Medical Advisory
Committee of the teaching hospital, Dr. Queeneth Kalu, said the blood
sample of the patient had been sent for testing while identified
contacts had been quarantined.
At a press briefing in Calabar on
Thursday, Kalu said that the National Centre for Disease Control, the
Federal Ministry of Health and the Cross River State Government as well
as the Department of State Services had been informed of the
development.
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