Nigeria’s confirmed Ebola index case is set for medical evacuation from Abuja for further medical treatment early Monday (today).
According to Arise TV, a source said arrangements had been made to fly the 42-year-old woman out of the country by 6am, adding that a medical evacuation aircraft was already at the airport awaiting her arrival.
“The medivac plane is already at the airport waiting to evacuate her,” the source said.
The source added that the federal government was expected to announce the development after the patient had departed Nigeria’s airspace.
The proposed evacuation is coming amid heightened surveillance and contact-tracing efforts by Nigerian health authorities to prevent further transmission of the disease.
Naija News reports that the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) said two suspected Ebola cases from the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and Rivers State have tested negative, while 53 primary contacts of the confirmed index case have been identified and are being monitored.
The agency also said that based on complaints by the contacts in quarantine, the federal government was considering the payment of N100,000 per week.
The agency, however, noted that the arrangement was interim as stated are expected to take over maintenance of the contacts cases in their domain subsequently.
Join the conversation
Comments
Want to discuss? Please read our Commenting Policy first.