The Rivers State government says it has moved the wife of the late Dr. Ike Enamoah, the doctor, who died of the suspected Ebola virus in the state.
The state government said the widow of the deceased doctor was moved to Lagos to enable workers in the state concentrate on the tracing of contacts and placing them under surveillance.
The State Commissioner for Health, Sampson Parker made this known while giving update of the case of Ebola in the state.
He said the number of contacts have increased to 160, adding that the state government now has about two hundred personnel who have volunteered their time and man-power to assist the state government.
“Only one case is symptomatic and that is the wife of the late Doctor, Ike Enamoah. You know that she had close contact with him.
“I must tell you now that she is in Lagos; we decided to move her to Lagos because of her emotions and we wanted to concentrate more on contact tracing than tending after her.
“For now, the treatment centre in Lagos is less busy, but if anyone falls ill, we have the technical know how to contain the situation”, Parker said.
Parker, who said the state government has invested a lot into capacity building for personnel, berated politicians for trying to play politics with the current situation.
The Commissioner said the home of the infected doctor, his hospital, the hotel that was secretly used for the treatment and the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, UPTH, would all be decontaminated.
“The State Government has invested a lot in capacity building, sourcing for materials, spending quality time to face this thing.
“We have lined up most of the contacts. We will decontaminate all the places that are involved”.
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