University
of Calabar Teaching Hospital, UCTH, has quarantined ten persons following the
death of a patient in the hospital on Wednesday with symptoms suspected to be
Ebola virus.
Dr. Queeneth
Kalu, Chairman of Medical Advisory Committee of the University of Calabar
Teaching Hospital, UCTH, while addressing pressmen on Thursday in Calabar
said:
“On Wednesday, 7thOctober, 2015, we managed a patient
who presented with symptoms mimicking viral hemorrhage (Ebola Virus) and have
decided to take the necessary measures”.
Dr. Kalu
stated that those quarantined are principally nurses who attended to the
patient and those who came in contact with him before his death.
”The following have been informed:
National Centre for Disease Control, Federal Ministry of Health, The
Cross River State Government, Calabar Municipality, and the Department of State
Security Services, DSS'' .She said further information will be
provided to the public as soon as the test results of blood samples sent for
analysis in received by the hospital.
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