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| Nigeria Health Minister, Dr Onyebuchi Chukwu |
The number of fatalities has now risen to four
people in Nigeria since Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer brought
the virus to the country.
Another nurse who attended to Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian national who died of Ebola Virus Disease, at the First Consultant Hospital has died, reports PREMIUM TIMES.
The nurse, who had been at the B
Ward – a male ward which is now referred to as Ebola Ward – of the Yaba
Mainland General Hospital, died in the early hours of Thursday. By 1 p.m., Thursday, a couple of
family relatives who are at the hospital were seen wiping away tears and making
telephone calls.
News of the passing of the nurse came as the
Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, a professor, disclosed at a news
conference in Abuja that another of the doctors who treated the late Patrick
Sawyer has tested positive to the deadly virus.
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