Lassa Fever disease has killed yet another person in Rovers State.
According to the Chairman of the Rivers state branch of Nigerian Medical
Association, NMA, Dr. Furo Green, a medical doctor with Braithwait
Memorial Specialist Hospital, BMH, Dr. Livy Ijamala, has died from Lassa
Fever, making the total number of deaths to 3 in the state.
The Chairman said late doctor, Ijamala, who died in the early hours
of Thursday from the ailment, had contact with patients infected with
Lassa Fever. Dr. Furo said that the late Doctor has been quickly buried in line with
recommendations of World Health Organization, WHO, for deaths from
contagious diseases.
He added that a team from WHO had already visited the hospital for assessment, and that the hospital has been decontaminated while those who made contact with the late Dr. Ijamala have been placed on observation.
“Last night, one of our hard-working doctors in the department of
obstetrics gynaecology, Dr. Livy Ijamala, lost his life following
infection with Lassa Fever. This is the price medical doctors and health
personnel pay for offering health services to the public”, he said.
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