Doctor Ameyo Adadevoh has recovered and has been discharged from the Isolation centre in Lagos.Dr. Ameyo is a senior consultant doctor at the First Consultant Hospita where0 Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian-American who brought Ebola into the country(Nigeria) was treated, and
she was among the first Nigerianswho tested positive with Ebola virus.
According to Nigerian Vanguard, the Director of Communication and Community Mobilisation for the Nigerian Emergency Operation Centre on Ebola Virus Disease, Adebayo Onajole, confirmed to media that Adadevoh had been discharged.
He however declined to give further details, saying the Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, would hold a press conference later tonight to fully brief the media about the doctor’s recovery.
But the Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, failed to reveal the name of the discharged patient.He instead confirmed to journalists that the first Nigerian Ebola patient has been declared fit and discharged from hospital.
He told journalists in Lagos that the patient, whose identity has not been revealed, was asked to go home after all the necessary medical examinations were carried out.
“The total number of Ebola cases now stands at 12, while the number of deaths remains four. The people under surveillance in Lagos are now 189, while six are in Enugu, in South-East Nigeria”, he said.
The minister also announced that the drug, Nano Silva, which was thought could be used to treat Ebola patients in Nigeria, was said not to have met the requirements of the National Health Research ethics code.
We recall that at a press conference in Abuja on Thursday, Chukwu said eight persons were still alive, more than half of them doing very well and showing signs of recovery.
The discharged patient is believed to be among those he earlier said were recovering.
So now that we have confirmed that a "patient can survive after being infected with Ebola" this time around,what have we learnt?How did she survive?"What was she treated with"?What was the level of her infection with the disease?Is she now immune to the disease after surviving it?So many questions waiting for an answer.