Thursday, announced that a woman (names withheld) died over rumored
Ebola outbreak in the state, after being rejected by four private
hospitals.
According to Vanguard, the commissioner, who made this known at a
press briefing said the victim, who was a staff of the Comprehensive
Health Centre, Ogotun, was said to have vomited and collapsed in the
premises of the State Ministry of Health, and was quickly rushed to an
hospital where she was rejected because of the text messages
circulated by some unidentified health workers whom tagged her Ebola
patient.
"On 20th August, 2014, a 55-year-old health care worker at Ogotun-
Ekiti, who was said not to have had any complaints of illness in the
last two months and no current history of travel outside the state
(according to her neighbours) got to the Data Bank of the Ministry of
Health at about 1.pm and collapsed after coughing out blood and
subsequently vomited and she was immediately tagged Ebola victim
without an adequate history taken and people started running away. The
woman subsequently died in the late evening. The unnecessary write-up
through the social media by some doctors in the state is uncalled for
and counter-productive to the efforts of the state government in
containing and curtailing the spread of the virus"Fasubaa narrated.
Fasubaa, who lamented the incident assured that there was no known
case of the disease in the state and warned that sending callous
messages through the Short Message Service (SMS) could lead to
avoidable death of innocent and non-Ebola patients.
He cautioned against creating unjustifiable panic through
indiscriminate spreading of unsubstantiated rumours about spurious
cases of Ebola.
It would be recalled that on August 18, 2014, the Kwara State
Committee on Control and Prevention of Ebola Virus Disease also
announced that a seven-month old baby suspected to be suffering from
the Ebola disease in the state died of illness said to be related to
malaria.
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