Another
doctor has tested positive for Lassa fever at the Lagos University Teaching
Hospital, Idi-Araba.
The
Chief Medical Director, Prof. Chris Bode, who confirmed the new case on Friday,
said the doctor had had contact with the index patient.
Three
doctors who attended to the first patient, a 32-year-old pregnant woman, had
tested positive for the disease while 135 other contacts were placed under
surveillance at the hospital earlier this month.
LUTH
had discharged the doctors who had been infected with the disease on Wednesday
after they were certified free of the disease by the experts at the tertiary
hospital.
According
to Bode in a statement on Friday, the doctor tested positive for Lassa fever on
Thursday.
Meanwhile,
the Kwara State Government on Friday said there is a confirmed case of Lassa
fever in a part of the state.
The
State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Sulaiman Alege, during a media briefing in
Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, stated that the patient, a 10-year-old boy,
was at Babanla Primary Health Care Centre in Ifelodun Local Government Area
when his sample was taken.
Alege
added that the state government would quarantine the patient and those who had
had contact with him.
The
commissioner also said the state government had notified the Nigerian Centre
for Disease Control about the discovery.
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