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| Dr. Jide Idris (C) Lagos State Commissioner for Health |
The Lagos State
Government has confirmed the death of another person as result of the Lassa
fever.
Daily
Trust report continues:
The
state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris told newsmen that a 27 year old
lady whose name he did not disclosed died on Tuesday at Ijede Hospital in
Ikorodu Local Government Area, few hours after she was admitted at the
hospital.
Last
week the state government had announced the first person to die of the virus in
Lagos in the latest outbreak who reportedly travelled from Edo state, one of
the states where the disease had been confirmed earlier.
The
latest person to die in Lagos of the disease was said to have travelled to Edo
state on December 24, 2015 and returned on January 2, 2016. She took ill in
January 11, 2016.
According
to the Commissioner, the lady was taken to one private hospital and three
churches before she was later brought to Ijede Hospital by her relatives.
“Her remains had been kept
in the morgue, she would be buried after due consultation with her family,” he
said.
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