Ebola In Anambra? Govt Seals Hospital, Quarantines Staff

The discovery of a corpse of an indigene of Anambra State in Nkwelle Ezunaka, Oyi Council Area of the state has raised fears that the dreaded Ebola virus may have entered the state.

The corpse was said to have been brought in cargo into the town from Liberia and deposited in the morgue of one Apex hospital at the weekend by relatives of the deceased, who were said to be making arrangement for his burial ceremony.

In a move to forestall an outbreak, the Anambra state Government today (Thursday) sealed off the hospital and the mortuary and quarantined the workers and the in-patients on the suspicion that the corpse might be a victim of Ebola having been brought in a Cargo from Liberia, one of the countries in the West African sub-region prevalent with the Ebola virus.

Commissioner for Health, Dr. Josephat Akabuike said in Awka that the hospital was shut down when an informant from the community who suspected that the corpse must have been a victim of Ebola disease in Liberia informed the state government that a corpse was brought into the community from the West African Country.

According to him, the informant was aware of the effects of the Ebola disease in Liberia and as a matter of fact was responding to the announcements the state government had been making since the disease became public knowledge.

10 COMMENTS

  1. Shouldn’t they have cremated the corpse in Liberia, for cry out loud why flying in corpse all the way from Liberia? I knw Igbos will like to throw party and show off their ill-gotten money for the dead.
    Ebola victim is more contagious than Ebola patient, hence they’ve warn against burial party, and these Igbo won’t heed simple warning worst still that from Liberia.
    No doubt, that man is Ebola victim

  2. Goddy Ehis, what is your problem, is everything about tribe to you? We are talking about the safety of the citizens u are busy displaying your ignorance. Who doesn’t celebrate in Nigeria; be it wedding, childbirth even burial or probably igbos are the ones that celebrate in Nigeria If you have nothing to say or suggest, shut your mouth