The Delta State
Government has placed 32 persons under surveillance as the news of the dead
doctor, who owns a hospital in Umuaji, filtered into town. The doctor was
treated at a private hospital, through Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching
Hospital, Nnewi, Anambra State, after three hours on admission.
The 32 persons include 11 persons from the
immediate family of the deceased, 18 persons from the hospital where the
patient was first admitted and three other persons who made contact with the
deceased.
Also, two disease surveillance officers in the
local government areas (Oshimili South and North) have been asked to monitor
the temperature of those under surveillance for the period of 21 days.
The state Commissioner
of Health, Dr. Nicholas Azinge, in a statement, said that the Delta State
government has sensitized health workers in the state on the high index of
suspension. He said citizens were to take preventive measures to forestall the
spread.
The commissioner further maintained that
actions taken by the state government to checkmate further occurrence include
awareness creation through various mass media to enable the public understand
how the decease is transmitted and that the drug ribavirin had been procured for immediate case
management, amongst others.
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