No less than 15 persons have been quarantined at
the accident and emergency ward of the University of Calabar Teaching
Hospital after an Ebola Virus Disease scare in the hospital on
Wednesday.
Those quarantined included nine nurses, one doctor, four health workers and one patient.
This came about following the death of a
patient with symptoms similar to that of the killer disease though the
hospital authorities said the patient might have died of any
Haemorrhagic fever.
Dr. Queeneth Kalu, Chairman of Medical
Advisory Committee of the hospital who made the revelation on Thursday
in Calabar while addressing pressmen said blood samples have been sent
to the Ebola Diagnosing Centre in Benin Edo State.
Health authorities have given the following advice concerning the Ebola disease and how to prevent it from festering:
- Practice careful hygiene. For example, wash your hands with soap and water or an alcohol-based hand sanitizer and avoid contact with blood and body fluids (such as urine, feces, saliva, sweat, urine, vomit, breast milk, semen, and vaginal fluids).
- Do not handle items that may have come in contact with an infected person’s blood or body fluids (such as clothes, bedding, needles, and medical equipment).
- Avoid funeral or burial rituals that require handling the body of someone who has died from Ebola.
- Avoid contact with bats and nonhuman primates or blood, fluids, and raw meat prepared from these animals.
- Avoid contact with semen from a man who has had Ebola until you know Ebola is gone from his semen.
