LASSA FEVER PATIENT ESCAPES FROM A HOSPITAL IN EBONYI

In controling the across the board of the feared Lassa fever‎, the government has dispelled any confusion air concerning the treatment of dead bodies by relatives of the perished by expressing that they would be permitted to do as such as religious and social convictions must be regarded.

The Chief Executive Officer of the National Center for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr Abdusalam Nasidi, mentioned the perspectives and objective facts on Tuesday at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs amid the crisis National Council on Health on Lassa fever episode.

He said relatives of the expired must oblige to purify dead bodies which ought to be conveyed prior and then afterward in twofold body packs and in addition guaranteeing that graves are burrowed profound.

“Families won’t be prevented the bodies from securing their expired relatines on the grounds that there must be regard for religious and social convictions. The genuine issue is that the way of life of a few individuals to wash dead bodies before entombment. On the other hand, we caution against contact with the bodies as an offer towards reducing the infection.

“Relatives will need to guarantee that the assortments of the expired are purified with chlorine and it is suggest that the bodies ought to be bundled in twofold body sacks. We likewise prompt that graves must be burrowed profound.”

In thesame vein, a male patient who tried positive to the illness was accounted for to have gotten away from a healing facility in Ebonyi state to an obscure destination.

The clergyman of wellbeing, Prof Isaac Adewole who communicated alarm concerning the circumstance expressed that the patient couldn’t have slipped off all alone without the assistance of a percentage of the medicinal services suppliers in the healing center and has so far directed‎ that the patient must be searched for and treated quickly.

“He ought to be followed and taken back to the office. He ought to be consoled that he will live if the treatment is done quickly as he couldn’t have departed suddenly all alone without the backing of the wellbeing officers.

He mourned that so much is been normal from the Ebonyi state government as it has not done what’s necessary. He said there was no requirement for patients to be moved to‎ Irrua in Edo state when the state has a practical medicinal services