Ogun State government has said that the number of people who had contact with a 28-year-old lady (nameswitheld) with Lassa fever case, had increased from 60 to 110.
The state Commissioner for Health, Dr Babatunde Ipaye, said the numbers of primary contact with the patient were under close watch.
Nigerian Tribune recalled that the affected lady was admitted into Central Specialist Hospital and Rubee Hospital, both in Ota axis of the state, before her case was reported to the state Ministry of Health.
He said the number increased because those that were on admission at the two private hospitals where the main contact received treatment, had to be placed under monitoring.
The commissioner said the victim who is on admission, at the Isolation Centre of the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital (OOUTH), Sagamu, was fast responding to treatment, at the hospital’s Isolation centre.
Ipaye said the case would have gone out of hand, had it not been for the promptness of the state government, based on the information got from the two private hospitals. He added that each of the primary contacts had surveillance officer attached to them with a themometer each, to monitor their temperature.
The commissioner said the two private hospitals had been decontaminated by the state health workers, adding that they would be re-opened as soon as possible. He stated further that the state government regretted any indirect inconveniences the issues might have caused the hospitals.
The Director of Public Health in the Ministry, Dr Yusuf Quudus, said the lady was fast responding to treatment compared to when she was brought in with so many complications, adding that the over 100 persons under surveillance would be watched closely between six and 21 days incubation period, before they would be handed over to their family members.
By: Olayinka Olukoya
Tribune News
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