Doctor who treated Ebola patient infected with virus

Ebola Virus

The minister of health Prof Onyebuchi Chukwu has confirmed that the doctor in Lagos who treated a Liberian victim of Ebola has contracted the virus.

“This new case is one of the doctors who attended to the Liberian Ebola patient who died,” Chukwu said.

Liberian finance ministry employee Patrick Sawyer was found to be infected with the virus when he arrived in Lagos on July 20. He died in quarantine on July 25.

There have been panic across Nigeria following the death of Sawyer. Federal Government and respective state governments have launched sensitization campaign to douse the fear.