Lassa fever has claimed the
life of a medical doctor at the Braithwaite Memorial Specialist Hospital in
Port Harcourt, Rivers state.
Dr. Ehival Njamala contracted
the disease while treating patients at the Disease Control Unit in the
hospital. The doctor’s death brings to three, the number of people who have
been killed by the dreaded virus since its outbreak in the state.
The chairman of the Nigerian Medical
Association in the state, Dr. Green
Duro, disclosed the news of the doctor’s death to newsmen in Port Harcourt. He also
used the opportunity to announce the commencement of a three-day warning strike
by the NMA following the kidnap of two medical doctors in the state.
Dr. Ib Aprioku, a consultant
with the Braithwaite Memorial Specialist Hospital was kidnapped on January 10,
2016 while Dr. Isaac Opurum, the director in charge of Community Health Services
in the Rivers State Primary Health Care Management Board was kidnapped this
week yesterday.
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