Ebola scare hits Calabar, 10 quarantined

In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews … .

Calabar, the Cross River State capital, is currently under the throes of an Ebola scare, as the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, UCTH, has quarantined ten persons after the death of a patient in the hospital on Wednesday with symptoms suspected to be Ebola virus.

The Chairman of the hospital’s Medical Advisory Committee, Dr. Queeneth Kalu, disclosed this on Thursday in Calabar while addressing the media.

According to her, the blood samples have been sent to the Ebola Diagnosing Centre in Benin Edo State.

“On Wednesday, 7th October, 2015, we managed a patient who presented with symptoms mimicking viral hemorrhage (Ebola Virus) and have decided to take the necessary measures”.

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According to her, those quarantined are the nurses who attended to the patient and people who came in contact with him before his death.

‘”The following have been informed: National Centre for Disease Control, Federal Ministry of Health, The Cross River State Government, Calabar Municipality, and the Department of State Security Services, DSS”

She added that information will be provided to the public immediately the test results of blood samples sent for analysis are received by the hospital.

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