Good News: Four more Ebola patients discharged – Health Minister

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-9123675465399533183" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 670px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbGaVy5JUG5BP9ungzJJDiUYiD-60Up3vFrZHjjLg8UnXEBU0pX93v87ItVjO8A-2UcxmBQA-DTnEOjjNaWaEuNLv73GW1WfsZDuzENJFyO-uGpTxhGEQ0Z1zkLbZAgHLEtWkqj_4vtn4/s1600/NNPC+shuts+clinic+after+suspected+Ebola+case+admitted.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbGaVy5JUG5BP9ungzJJDiUYiD-60Up3vFrZHjjLg8UnXEBU0pX93v87ItVjO8A-2UcxmBQA-DTnEOjjNaWaEuNLv73GW1WfsZDuzENJFyO-uGpTxhGEQ0Z1zkLbZAgHLEtWkqj_4vtn4/s1600/NNPC+shuts+clinic+after+suspected+Ebola+case+admitted.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="640" /></span></a></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Four more patients have been certified clean and discharged from the Ebola Isolation center in Lagos after undergoing treatment for the deadly disease. The four patients include two male doctors, the nurse who had earlier escaped from the isolation center and ran to Enugu and a female patient who was on admission at the time Patrick Sawyer was hospitalized at the First Consultant Hospital.<br /><br />The news of their discharge was disclosed in a statement released today by the Minister of Health, Prof Onyebuchi Chukwu and signed by his his Special Assistant on Media and Communication, Mr. Dan Nwomeh. Read parts of the statement after the cut...</span><blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“The Minister of Health Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu has announced that four additional confirmed cases of Ebola Virus Disease who have been managed successfully and are now disease free have been discharged home today. They include two male medical doctors and one female nurse. The three participated in the treatment of the index case while the fourth person was a female patient at the time the index case was on admission. This brings to five the total number of patients diagnosed with Ebola Virus Disease who have now been discharged from hospital.”</span></blockquote> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On Saturday August 16th, the Health Minister announced that the first Nigerian to be diagnosed of EVD, a female doctor, had been discharged after she was treated and certified cured.<br /><br />The Minister also stated that the total number of cases of the Ebola Virus Disease in Nigeria remained at 12 while the number of deaths from the disease was four and that the number of people under surveillance in Lagos is 189 while in Enugu is 6.</span><div style="clear: both;"> </div> </div> <div class="post-footer" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin: 20px -2px 0px; padding: 5px 10px;"> </div> </div>

Good News: Four more Ebola patients discharged – Health Minister

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Health workers in Nigeria “have fought the Ebola outbreak to a tentative standstill.” - New York Times

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2753770577072678235" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 670px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbY-l97QA32JT5lIOW2b9CnUxO21mFpFxIeb8b79swplVwR5K_C6C9MX_j3dO98mV97UiPxrBeQ9S-UckPNsJ2MJzmGP5RXZJ2shuyd5ct6D_NDxjme_92_MxBQxvd3qPKVf7W59qsVyE/s1600/onyebuchi+chukwu.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbY-l97QA32JT5lIOW2b9CnUxO21mFpFxIeb8b79swplVwR5K_C6C9MX_j3dO98mV97UiPxrBeQ9S-UckPNsJ2MJzmGP5RXZJ2shuyd5ct6D_NDxjme_92_MxBQxvd3qPKVf7W59qsVyE/s1600/onyebuchi+chukwu.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="640" /></span></a></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Director of the USA Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr Thomas Frieden, was quoted as saying American health workers were watching Nigeria with intense interest, “because of its huge population and because it is much more of a crossroads than the other three countries, in much closer touch with the rest of Africa.”<br /><br />As the Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, announced that the first Nigeria carrier of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) has fully recovered.<br /><br />Revealing this at a press briefing at the Yaba Psychiatric Hospital, Lagos, on Saturday, Professor Chukwu confirmed that the statistics of currently confirmed cases of the virus in Nigeria had risen to 12.<br /><br />The minister said the first Nigerian EVD carrier, the female doctor who attended to Mr Patrick Sawyer, had been freed from the deadly disease.<br /></span><blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He added that, “the patients under treatment have now been moved to the new 40-bed capacity isolation ward provided by the Lagos State Government and, at present, five of the confirmed cases of EVD have almost fully recovered.”</span></blockquote> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br />Chukwu also disclosed that the experimental drug, Nano Silver, was rejected by the Federal Government because it did not meet the specification of National Health Research Ethic Code.<br /><br />Speaking on the sack of Resident Doctors, Chukwu said their suspension was temporary.<br /><br />US expresses worry over Nigeria<br /><br />Meanwhile, there were growing concerns at the weekend over how Nigeria is handling its share of the problem as the world battles to stop the spread of the virus and save the lives of those who have contracted it.<br /><br />However, authorities in the United States of America (USA) health sector commended the country and expressed hope that Nigeria stood the best chance of handling the problem, among affected African nations, even as there were indications that the world power is preparing well for victims of the disease in West Africa.<br /><br />This is coming on the heel of reports of an upsurge in the number of victims of the disease as well as growing fear that it might bring economic hardship to millions of people in the region.<br /><br />US experts hail Nigeria<br /><br />According to a report by New York Times, it is believed that health workers in Nigeria “have fought the Ebola outbreak to a tentative standstill.”<br /></span><blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">American health workers believe that the country is “offering, at least, a chance to eradicate the disease there before it spins out of control, as it has in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, where a sluggish response failed to halt it early.”</span></blockquote> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Director of the USA Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr Thomas Frieden, was quoted as saying American health workers were watching Nigeria with intense interest, “because of its huge population and because it is much more of a crossroads than the other three countries, in much closer touch with the rest of Africa.”</span></blockquote> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br />Another foreign expert, Dr Maurizio Barbeschi, a scientist from the World Health Organisation (WHO) who is working on the outbreak, was also quoted as saying that though there is panic in Nigeria, the situation is not hopeless for the country.</span><blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br />“They think it is a death sentence,” he said, adding, however, that the people of the country were getting good care and expressing doubt that the country’s death rate would reach that of the other countries, “where about 60 per cent of the cases have been fatal in some locations.”</span></blockquote> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br />Source: Tribune</span><div style="clear: both;"> </div> </div> <div class="post-footer" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 0, 0); 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Health workers in Nigeria “have fought the Ebola outbreak to a tentative standstill.” - New York Times

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And when other people hear it, they will also begin to run from you. So, you have to carry your family along,” she explained.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">After the conversation, she would then hand them a one-page form to fill. In most cases, the volunteers dis­persed after that exercise. But in some instances, you could still see some of them hanging around after filling their forms.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">An official of the centre who asked not to be named, told <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sunday Sun </i>that the response from the people was heart­warming, stating that it was a show of the African spirit of being one’s brother’s keeper.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The source assured the re­porters that they were getting the right kind of volunteers, saying that there were no stringent conditions for ac­cepting volunteers, except that they had to be willing and able to work.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In some cases, the officials had to advise a volunteer to take on a different task other than the one he or she applied for, depending on where they adjudged the volunteer’s skills could be better utilised.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Some of the volunteers, the source said would work at the clinical section (among this group were mainly doctors and nurses), while some others would work at social mobilization (to educate people about Ebola). Yet some others, he said, would engage in contact tracing and screen­ing at points of entry.</span></div> <div> <br /></div> </div>

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-4362384119090564936" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 616px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5k4RbGmi7I3bfqMrPCYw1UGAK8UuEd-7SGqEhfBIlwQ2RphDqsvedpWr5PdA_Xnmm5gpjIQfykVVb3pbolU47SPT3Qf5_Xy7jnEWm3Etm5fs_6mIuSQvTlncCZ0KP4oV0eLA-tUg47Fc/s1600/b.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 0, 0); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px;" /><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo9IhyHBXhstldPazaFECKrZjpthXpceTEDzTZCpovGpSVJGyblKkTD83zhBN_OwJm_Tf8-bZkQUENwiH48X0oaF-C3ePucwoV5lIUtJhH5l6np9sUXoraicOF4m6brm3MFoi65n47ZS0/s1600/a.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 0, 0); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px;" /></span></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The International President of Doctors Without Borders, Joanne Liu (pictured left), said today August 15th that it will take six months to bring the current Ebola epidemic sweeping through West Africa under control. She said this after a 10-day trip to some countries in West Africa where the outbreak has so far occurred. Liu, who met with Ebola patients & doctors, said the outbreak felt like 'wartime'</span><blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"The main thing I come back to is that it is deteriorating faster, moving faster than we can respond to. To put it in context with my time with DWB, I really feel that it is like wartime, in terms of fear and nobody knowing what is going on. We need a response in terms of international organizations and states, and it needs to happen now if we want to contain this epidemic. Over the next six months we should get the upper hand on the epidemic, this is my gut feeling. We need people with a hands-on operational mindset to combat the outbreak." she said</span></blockquote> </div> </div>

Doctors Without Borders say control of Ebola epidemic will take 6 months

The International President of Doctors Without Borders, Joanne Liu (pictured left), said today August 15th that it will take six months ...

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