Kwara’s seven-month-old Ebola suspect tests negative

The Kwara State Regime has verbalized that the seven-month-old baby who was isolated in the state on the suspicion that the boy had Ebola has tested negative to the virus.

He verbally expressed that with this development, the state is currently liberate from the pernicious Ebola virus disease.

He was verbalized to have manifested symptoms homogeneous to Ebola disease, lassa fever and malaria.

The Special Assistant to the Kwara State Governor on Information, Deji Oni, in a verbalization on Sunday verbalized that the state regime had received the result of the suspect’s test from the Lagos University Teaching Hospital which showed that the boy tested negative to the Ebola virus.

Oni who is a member, Kwara State Committee on the Aversion and Control of Ebola Virus, verbalized that with the development, the state remains Ebola free.

He verbalized, “It would be recalled that the rumor mill was agog some days ago about a reported case of Ebola infection in the state.

“As a responsible and responsive regime, we swung into action by closing down the hospital where the suspected case was reported and immediately isolated the patient at the Sobi Specialist Hospital, Ilorin where indispensable medication was administered on the child and the blood sample taken to Lagos to ascertain what the authentic cause of his sickness.

“The test result from LUTH has subsequently proven negative. Effectively, Kwara has no corroborated case of Ebola at the moment. However, the public is urged to remain vigilant and report any suspected case to the most proximate hospital while perpetuating to take precautions against infection.”

Oni noted that shortly after the country recorded the first case, the state regime inaugurated a 14-man Committee on the aversion and control of the virus.

He integrated that the governor additionally injuctively authorized the immediate procurement of laboratory equipment and reagents which are already stationed at the Harmony Advanced Medical Diagnostic Centre, Ilorin.

He verbally expressed, “The state had withal set up three Isolation Centres, one each in the three senatorial districts – Sobi Specialist Hospital, Ilorin, General Hospital, Omuaran and General Hospital, Okuta. A special training was withal organised for health care givers on how to handle Ebola patients.