Lassa In Lagos: Three More Lagos University Teaching Hospital Workers Test Positive

Three health workers of the 100 that had contact with a pregnant woman who died of Lassa fever have tested positive for the infection. LUTH’s Chief Medical Director, Prof. Chris Bode, confirmed this at a joint briefing by the hospital’s management and officials of the Lagos State Ministry of Health yesterday.Bode said the health workers had been admitted to the Isolation Ward at the teaching hospital alongside a female resident doctor who contracted the infection while conducting an autopsy on one of the index cases. The CMD also identified the second patient who died of the disease at the hospital as a sickle cell patient that was admitted on August 5.According to him, all the other 97 contacts are still under surveillance. Also at the briefing, the Director, Diseases Control, Lagos State Ministry of Health, Dr. Eniola Erinosho, said the private hospitals where the victims had visited before they were referred to LUTH had been placed under a 21-day surveillance.