SCARE IN ANAMBRA OVER EBOLA: AS CORPSE ARRIVE FROM LIBERIA

    AWKA —There was pandemonium in Anambra yesterday over the possible outbreak of the dreaded Ebola virus as corpse of an Anambra State indigene arrived from Liberia. The corpse was brought into the country in a cargo and headed straight to
Apex Hospital and Mortuary at Nkwelle Ezunaka in Oyi Local Government Area of the Anambra state, apparently by his relations for burial. This prompted the officials of the state ministry of health directing security operatives to cordon off the mortuary where the body was deposited pending investigations by experts from the Federal Ministry of Health.

    However, someone from the community, who claimed that the man died in Liberia where there have been reported deaths cases caused by Ebola disease, informed the Anambra State Governor, Chief Willie Obiano. The Governor immediately directed the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Josephat Akabike to take immediate action.Speaking with reporters in Awka, yesterday, Akabike said that though it has not been confirmed that the man died of the Ebola disease, there was need for precautionary measures to be taken.“We have already contacted the Federal Ministry of Health and we are expecting them to be in  the state any time from now" -said Dr Akabike. We have sealed the mortuary and the hospital and all the corpses and the people working there have been quarantined.

    We are also making frantic efforts to locate the family of the deceased, to ascertain their level of contact with the corpse when it arrived the country, and everybody who had visited the mortuary will also be quarantined. Ebola is a very big threat right now and we are surprised how the corpse came into Nigeria and Anambra State and that is why we are taking all the measures. It is shocking to us and we have directed the police to cordon off the area.

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