Four more patients undergoing treatment for the deadly Ebola Virus Disease have been discharged from the Ebola Emergency Treatment Centre in Lagos.
The Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, in a statement on Monday, said the discharged patients have now being confirmed to be Ebola free.
The identities of the survivors were however not disclosed.
Mr. Chukwu said three of the patients – two male doctors and a female nurse – participated in the....
treatment of the index case, Patrick Sawyer, while the fourth patient was a female patient at the First Consultant Hospital at the time Mr. Sawyer was on admission.
Mr. Sawyer, a Liberian-American, escaped surveillance in Monrovia, and came into Nigeria on July 20 with the deadly Ebola virus.
He later died at First Consultant on July 24.
Following the importation of the disease, 11 people have tested positive to the disease out of which four people have died, including the index case.
This development brings the number of discharged persons to five.
One of the patients, who tested positive to the virus was discharged on Saturday, after she was declared Ebola free.
Mr. Chukwu had earlier indicated that more than half of the patients being treated were responding to treatment.
The minister said all the persons under surveillance were secondary contacts.
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