The Ogun State Government has said the first patient of Lassa Fever who was being treated at an isolation centre of Olabisi Onabanjo University Hospital Teaching Hospital, Sagamu has died.
The state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Babatunde Ipaye, who said this on Sunday in Abeokuta, during a press briefing, gave the name of the victim simply as Mrs. Eze.
He also revealed sadly that the state had recorded another case of a victim of the viral disease, who had also been moved to the isolation centre at the OOUTH, Sagamu.
He said this second victim who was carrying a 12-week-old pregnancy, came to the state from Kogi State.
Ipaye said the first victim who ought to have completed her treatment on Sunday, suddenly died, after having spent nine days at the isolation centre.
He said, “The deceased was responding positively to treatment before she started developing complications on Saturday.
“The state government was planning to celebrate the success of her case while the family was planning a thanksgiving service before her death.”
Ipaye, however, said that none of the 121 primary contacts had come down with any fever or symptoms suggestive of Lassa.
The commissioner said the state government had got the consent of the family members to bury Eze according to the guidelines of the World Health Organisation and the National Protocol on Management of Lassa fever.
It will be recalled that the deceased reportedly travelled from Ebonyi State where she had gone to attend a burial to Ogun State on January 15. She was later diagnosed of Lassa Fever in two private hospitals.
Like the index case, Ipaye said the 28- year -old pregnant woman travelled from Kogi State where she had gone to attend a wedding.
The patient, according to the commissioner, came down with fewer and reported herself at a Primary Health Centre in Obantoko, Abeokuta where she was referred to the Federal Medical Centre also in the state capital where her status was also confirmed.
He added that the state government had also identified 60 primary contacts with the second case, putting the contacts in the state now at 181.
He explained that the pregnant women who was initially weak and unconscious had been stabilised, adding that she had started responding to medication, within the three days she had been on admission.
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