KADUNA has recorded its first suspected case of the Ebola Virus Disease
with 19 years old student from Zaria being put under monitor at the isolation
centre at the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria.
The suspect, an undergraduate Law Student of the Ahmadu Bello University, has been
said to be exhibiting symptoms of the deadly EVD.
Kaduna State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Thot Dogo, confirmed this in
Kaduna on Tuesday.
Dogo said the authorities of the ABU Teaching Hospital alerted his
ministry when they suspected that the man started showing some symptoms of
Ebola. He said the suspect had high fever and rashes on his body after being
admitted in the hospital for over a week.
“The man has fever and there are rashes all over his body. These are
symptoms consistent with the Ebola disease. The blood sample of the patient has
been taken to a laboratory in Lagos for tests and we expect the result of the
test today (Tuesday),” the commissioner said.
He added that the outcome of the laboratory result would determine
further actions, saying the state government had provided the management of
ABUTH with protective equipment for its team of medical personnel attending to
the patient.
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