A suspected Virus Lassa fever persistent kicked the bucket on Friday evening at the State House Clinic in Abuja in the wake of seeping from different parts of his body.
The young fellow, whose name couldn't be promptly found out was said to have been debilitated for around two weeks, before he was surged down from Kaduna to the center where he surrendered the phantom.
It was learnt that the patient was seeping from the mouth and ears before he passed on. His remaining parts had been kept at the SHC funeral home.
Our reporter assembled that the lamentable occurrence tossed the medicinal work force into frenzy as they observed defenselessly as the patient kicked the bucket.
Sources told our reporter that the Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, was about having a meeting with senior authorities of the service when he was educated about the episode.
The priest and his authority were said to have hurried down to the facility where they met the confounded SHC medicinal work force and saw the dead patient.
"The pastor coordinated that blood example ought to be acquired from the patient, which was taken to the Reference Laboratory at Asokoro. In this way, the service is expecting the consequence of the test which would be prepared tomorrow (today). We are not certain it is Lassa fever, but rather the way in which the young fellow kicked the bucket and different side effects showed that he may have contracted Lassa fever," a source clarified.
It was accumulated that Adewole later had a meeting with wellbeing authorities on the Lassa fever episode in the nation and the measures that could be taken to check it.
A senior service official said the malady might in any case claim numerous more casualties particularly in February and March (dry season) when the illness vector, multimammate rats multiply intensely, accordingly expanding the odds of tainting foodstuffs.
Our reporter learnt that the service had dispersed Glabarine infusions and tablets to states having episodes of the malady.
The pastor had reported the passing of the first Lassa fever quiet at the National Hospital, Abuja last Wednesday.
Then, an instance of Lassa fever has been affirmed at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi Araba, Lagos
A report by an online daily paper, The Cable, refered to the Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, as saying that the case includes a 25-year-old understudy of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.
Adewole was said to have included that the patient was reacting to treatment.
It will be reviewed that the illness was said to have been recognized in Abuja and 11 different states.
A patient kicked the bucket in Abuja on Thursday bringing to 43, the quantity of fatalities from the sickness the nation over.
Source:Punch
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