#Ebolavirus: 160 people quarantined in Port Harcourt

#Ebolavirus: 160 people quarantined in Port Harcourt

Friday, August 29, 2014 6:45 pm


Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt

One hundred and sixty people who were suspected to have had primary and secondary contacts with the late  Port Harcourt doctor, Dr. Iyke Samuel Enamuo,  and wife are now under medical  surveillance, just as the wife has been flown to Lagos  for adequate medical attention.

Dr. Sampson Parker, Commissioner of Health in Rivers State said that the wife,also a medical doctor has been  to flown to Lagos because of t her emotional  state after the death of the husband.

Relations of those whose corpses were deposited in the UPTH morgue have been asked to be patient till the decontamination of the mortuary, where the doctor’s  body was kept.

The doctor’s corpse was deposited at the morgue on Friday 22 August 22  at time  news of  Ebola outbreak had not been made known.


Governor Amaechi ,centre, at the quarantine centre in Rivers State

Governor Amaechi ,centre, at the quarantine centre in Rivers State


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