At a meeting with journalists in his office, The Chief Medical Director of Dalhatu Specialist Hospital, Lafia, Nasarawa State, Dr. Ahmed Ashuku, has dismissed rumours of the Ebola Virus Disease in the hospital.
He said the reason for the Ebola scare was a female patient, who was brought to the hospital for vomiting blood. He said the woman was later diagnosed of chronic liver disease and she eventually died.
He also said that another patient who was also diagnosed of chronic pelvic ulcer with symptoms related with that of Ebola had tested negative to Ebola by the state response team.
The CMD then explained that the virus could not be transmitted as being speculated, except through direct contact with a victim. He clarified that Nasarawa had no recorded case of the EVD.
Also, the state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Emmanuel Akabe, also stated that there was nothing like Ebola virus disease in the state.
Akabe told journalists after the state executive council meeting in Lafia on Wednesday that patients with symptoms similar to the Ebola virus at Nasarawa Eggon had been diagnosed to have chronic pelvic ulcer.