Five Nigerian Ebola victims almost fully fit – Minister
Five of the Nigerian patients being treated for Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) have virtually plenarily recuperated, Minister of Health Onyebuchi Chukwu verbalized in a press verbalization today.
In integration, a female nurse was discharged this evening.
Professor Onyebuchi corroborated that nano silver, an experimental drug he had promulgated 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 verbally expressed the total number of substantiated 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 withal promulgated that the patients under treatment have been relocated to an incipient 40 bed capacity isolation ward provided by the Lagos State Regime, and that the federal regime has provided supplemental equipment for facility.
With reference to nano silver, he verbalized that other candidate drugs are now being evaluated by the Treatment Research Group for treatment of the disease.
“As anon 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 apprised consent of the patient,” the Minister verbally expressed.
In integration, a female nurse was discharged this evening.
Professor Onyebuchi corroborated that nano silver, an experimental drug he had promulgated 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 verbally expressed the total number of substantiated 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 withal promulgated that the patients under treatment have been relocated to an incipient 40 bed capacity isolation ward provided by the Lagos State Regime, and that the federal regime has provided supplemental equipment for facility.
With reference to nano silver, he verbalized that other candidate drugs are now being evaluated by the Treatment Research Group for treatment of the disease.
“As anon 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 apprised consent of the patient,” the Minister verbally expressed.
Five Nigerian Ebola victims almost fully fit – Minister
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