BEVERLY HILLS, February 23, (THEWILL) – A 22-year old woman, Itodo Christabel, has been confirmed dead from Lassa fever in Calabar, capital of Cross River State.
THEWILL gathered that the deceased, who had taken ill in Benue State, requested to be transferred to Eburutu Barracks clinic in Calabar to meet her husband who works with the military.
From Eburutu clinic, she was taken to the Navy Hospital, Calabar, where she was managed for some days before being she was referred to the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital where she died less than 12 hours after admission.
The Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Thomas Agan, who confirmed the incident, revealed that laboratory examination conducted at the hospital confirmed that she died of viral haemorrhagic fever but insisted that there was no cause for alarm as the matter was under control.
“There’s no cause for alarm. The woman died less than 12 hours when she was brought to the teaching hospital. She was in Navy hospital all this while and was only brought here in a critical situation.
“We are just worried about our doctors and nurses who attended to her. We have quarantined them and will write officially to the health minister and the director, Centre for Disease Control tomorrow,” he said.
