The Federal Ministry of Health has announced the death of a female consultant physician in Lagos from the Ebola Virus Disease.
This was made known in a statement yesterday by Special Assistant on Media and Communication to the Minister of Health, Mr Dan Nwomeh.
The statement said the physician who died last evening was one of the primary contacts of the Mr Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian who brought the disease to Nigeria. It added that she was one of the most senior doctors who participated in the management of the Liberian.
This, the statement said, brings to five the total number of deaths from Ebola in Nigeria.
The other two patients currently under treatment in the isolation wards are stable and are being taken care of, it said.
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