Abeg make una bring am come hospital ooo....A patient currently undergoing treatment at the Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital in Edo state has escaped from the facility. The minister of health, Professor Isaac Adewole made the disclosure while inaugurating the Lassa Fever Eradication Committee in Abuja on Tuesday, January 19.He ordered the immediate tracing and readmission of the patient who allegedly escaped with other patients atthe health care center.He said: “I have just been informed that a patient who is currently undergoing treatment at the Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital in Edo state had escaped. I want to charge all concerned to ensure that him and other who escaped from the centre are traced and returned back. Health workers must also assure these patients that they willbe well,” he added.Prof Adewole blamed the outbreak of Lassa fever in some states on the failure of the surveillance system in Nigeria.The committee inaugurated by the minister is headed by the president, Nigerian Academy of Science, Prof. Oyewale Tomori, is saddled with the responsibility of advising the federal government on the way forward as regards eradication of the virus from Nigeria.
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