Barely a month after a Liberian national, Patrick Sawyer imported the
deadly Ebola disease into Nigeria, and a day after the death of Dr.
Stella Adadevoh, another Liberian is in Lagos with the disease.
A Senior
Registrar with Igbobi Orthopaedic hospital, Lagos, Dr Akindele Akintayo
made this known while speaking on Channels Television’s Sunrise
programme this morning.
Although Dr. Akintayo didn’t reveal much, he however said that the Liberian is currently in the Lagos Isolation center.
“You need to know that there is another Liberian patient under
observation that is being treated for Ebola in an Infectious Disease
Hospital Lagos.
“Am not very sure if he is a new case or had contact with Patrick Sawyer,” he explained.
Dr. Akintayo also emphasized the need for infected dead persons to be
cremated in order not to transmit the virus, saying that the virus
survives in the dead.
He called for more community awareness programmes
to help ensure that the virus would not spread to other Nigerian states.
All the confirmed Ebola cases are in Lagos State in south west Nigeria.
Several persons were said to have contracted the disease in Liberia
during burials. According to reports, the late Patrick Sawyer contracted
the virus during the late sister’s burial.
Since the disease broke out early this year, at least 1,200 deaths have been recorded, most of them in West Africa.