Suspected Ebola Victim Escapes From Port Harcourt

Information coming in from Port Harcourt, Rivers State indicate that a sister of the medical doctor, Iyke Enemuo, who recently died from the Ebola virus fled to Abia State to avoid being quarantined along with others who came into contact with the late doctor.

 

Sahara Reporters however reports that a sibling of the suspected Ebola victim, who is also a doctor, forced her to return to the quarantine center in Port Harcourt.

It was gathered that the woman helped to care for her late doctor brother when he contracted the dreaded Ebola virus disease.

Earlier reports had informed that about 160 people who came in contact with the late Dr. Enemuo, who died last Friday in Port Harcourt, have been placed in quarantine for medical watch.

According to Nigerian Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, the deceased had contracted the virus when he was secretly treating a staff of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) who, in turn, had had contact with Patrick Sawyer, a Liberian-American who initially brought the disease into Nigeria.

It would be recalled that Sawyer had slumped at the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos shortly after arriving there on 20 July, 2014. 

Reports stated that the Liberian diplomat was rushed to a Lagos Hospital where he died from the Ebola virus on 25 August, 2014. 

A doctor, Ameyo Stella Adadevoh, and two nurses who helped care for Sawyer in a hospital in Lagos have also died from the disease.

Investigation revealed that the ECOWAS diplomat who had had contact with Sawyer flew to Port Harcourt the same day the Liberian American died, and met up with Dr. Enemuo. 

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Apparently aware of the deadly nature of the disease afflicting the diplomat, Dr. Enemuo opted to treat him secretly at a local hotel.

After recovering, the ECOWAS staff flew back to Lagos to seek clearance to travel out of Nigeria. Quarantined and checked for Ebola in Lagos, he was found to be free of the virus. However, a few days after he left Port Harcourt, Dr. Enemuo took ill and was hospitalized at Good Health Hospital in Port Harcourt where he died of the disease.

The hospital has been closed down, and close to 70 people immediately quarantined by Nigerian health officials. 

However, as at Thursday night, about 160 people who had been in contact with Dr. Enemuo and the ECOWAS diplomat had been quarantined. Dr. Enemuo’s wife recently took ill with Ebola symptoms