A female doctor in Port Harcourt has tested positive to the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease. It is reported that she was on admission at the Green Hart hospital where the late Port Harcourt doctor, Iyke Enemoah, was treated after he got infected with the deadly virus in the course of treating an ECOWAS official.
During a meeting of the National Emergency Council on Ebola outbreak in Nigeria held today, September 1st, the Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu had revealed this.
Speaking with all Commissioners for Health in Nigeria, Prof. Chukwu said the doctor who tested positive to the disease is now being treated at the Ebola isolation ward in Rivers state.
The number of confirmed Ebola cases in Rivers state has now climbed to three with this recent development; they include the index case- ECOWAS official, Oluibukun Koye; the late Dr, Iyke Enemoah who died on Friday August 22nd and the recently diagnosed female doctor.
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