Three
people have been taken to the Ebola Virus Disease quarantine centre
at Oduoha, Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State.
The State Commissioner for Health,
Sampson Parker, made this known on Sunday just as the Federal Government
said another emergency meeting of the National Council of Health over
the EVD would hold in Abuja on Monday(today). The last meeting took
place on August 11, 2014.
Parker, who addressed journalists,
said those quarantined were a doctor, a pharmacist and a woman who
came into contact with Dr, Iyke Enemuo,who died of the virus in Port
Harcourt on August 22.
The pharmacist and the doctor are
members of staff of Sam Steel Hospital while the nurse worked at the
Good Heart Hospital where Enemuo died.
Sam Steel Hospital was founded by
Enemuo, who contracted Ebola while treating an ECOWAS diplomat, Koye
Olu-Ibukun, who travelled to Port Harcourt after coming into contact
with the Liberian-American, Patrick Sawyer. Sawyer died from the virus
in Nigeria.
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