There was pandemonium on Tuesday at the Orile-Agege
General Hospital, Agege area of Lagos, southwest Nigeria, when a patient
presented with the deadly Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, was brought to the
hospital.
It was gathered that the patient, who was
brought into the hospital in the morning, was bleeding all over his body
and health workers such as nurses, doctors and other patients in the
hospital fled from him.
It was gathered that the
patient had come to the hospital last week complaining of fever, but
that he later re-appeared on Tuesday with blood coming out from his
body.
Everybody in the hospital fled from the patient in order not to contract the deadly Ebola Virus.
A health official, who craved anonymity, told P.M.NEWS that the case was reported at the hospital on Tuesday.
P.M.NEWS gathered that the authorities of the
Orile-Agege General Hospital informed the Ifako-Ijaiye General Hospital
about the patient, saying they did not have the wherewithal to handle
the case.
It was learnt that the Ifako-Ijaiye General
Hospital declined and called the State Ministry of Health officials who
ordered that nobody should touch the patient as government was coming to
pick him up.
Officials of the Lagos State Government,
it was gathered, picked up the patient and the man who brought him to
the hospital and took them away to be tested if the case was actually an
Ebola one.
Effort to get the State Commissioner for
Health, Dr. Jide Idris to confirm the report proved abortive as his
Public Relations Officer, Bosun Ogunbamwo, said he had gone to Abuja.
Source:PM News
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