(EVD) have almost fully recovered, Minister of Health Onyebuchi Chukwu
said in a press statement today.
In addition, a female nurse was discharged this evening.
Professor Onyebuchi confirmed that nano silver, an experimental drug
he had announced on Thursday would be deployed in treatment if cleared
by the National Health Research Ethics Committee had failed to meet
the required standards and would not be put into use.
Giving the statistics as of yesterday, August 16, he said the total
number of confirmed cases in the country was 12, of which four have
died. The number of persons under surveillance in Lagos is 189, and
six in Enugu.
He also announced that the patients under treatment have been moved to
a new 40 bed capacity isolation ward provided by the Lagos State
Government, and that the federal government has provided additional
equipment for facility.
With reference to nano silver, he said that other candidate drugs are
now being evaluated by the Treatment Research Group for treatment of
the disease.
"As soon as any of the experimental drugs is cleared by the National
Health Research Ethics Committee and is made available, we shall
include it in the treatment regimen subject to the informed consent of
the patient," the Minister said.
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