Lassa Fever Kills 2 Persons In Lagos State

The Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) has stated that two of its patients being treated for Lassa fever have been confirmed dead.

Speaking on the incident on Tuesday, the Chief Medical Director, LUTH, Chris Bode, said no less than 100 hospital workers from different hospitals who had been exposed to the patients are currently under close monitoring.

He added that both patients whose cases were presented late were said to have died within few days of admission despite all efforts to save them.

One of the dead victims, a 32 years old pregnant woman with bleeding disorder, died after a still birth and already had a post-mortem examination conducted on her before her Lassa status was confirmed.

This had exposed a lot of people to the disease especially the pathologist who performed the post-mortem.

It was gathered that a resident doctor on the pathological team from the Department of Anatomic and Molecular Pathology has been infected with the disease and is currently under admission at the LUTH isolation centre.

Mr. Bode, who visited the isolation centre, urged all LUTH workers to maintain heightened level of alert in the wake of this outbreak and observe universal precautions in handling all suspected cases of viral haemorrhagic fever.

He said the teaching hospital has been working closely with officials of the Lagos State Ministry of Health in handling a number of diseases of pubic importance such as rabies, cholera, Lassa fever and the recent diarrhoea disease at the Queen’s College, Lagos.

“Both the Lagos State Ministry of Health and the Federal Ministry of Health have responded swiftly to contain this present Lassa fever outbreak by mobilising human and material resources to trace the sources and extent of the disease, follow up on potential contacts, identify early and test suspected cases,” he said.

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