The Ekiti state Commissioner for Health, Professor Olusola Fasubaa yesterday debunked rumours of an outbreak of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease in the state and cautioned against creating unjustifiable panic through indiscriminate spreading of unsubstantiated rumours about spurious cases of Ebola warneing that sending callous messages through the Short Message Service (SMS) could lead to avoidable death of innocent and non-Ebola patients.
This came as the government lamented the unfortunate death of a woman, who was said to have vomited and collapsed in premises of the State Ministry of Health and was rejected in four different private hospitals because of the text messages circulated by some unidentified people suspected to be in the Healthcare sector that tagged her ebola patient.