The female passenger, Folswe Elizabeth Maria, on board Royal Air Maroc, from Morocco was on transit and was said to have taken ill at the transit area of the airport after using the toilet. The case was immediately reported to officials of the Port Health Services who used the Infra-red Thermometre to test her and discovered that she had high temperature. The passenger was later taken to an isolation centre and kept under observation by Port Health officials
It was further gathered
that the woman had worked previously in two Ebola Virus Disease-prone countries
of Guinea and Sierra Leone, thus fuelling suspicion that she could have
contracted the disease.
The sources said: “The
passenger, who is from South Africa, came aboard Royal Air Maroc. She followed
normal processes even at the Nigeria Immigration Service. She is a transit
passenger and she was at the transit lounge where she went to drink and
thereafter felt uneasy; went to the toilet and on coming back, she fell ill.
The case was reported to the Port Health Service officials who immediately
examined her.”
A statement signed by the
Special Assistant on Media and Communications to the Minister of Health, Dan
Nwomeh said: “The South African national suspected of showing symptoms of Ebola
at the international airport (Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos)
was quarantined at the isolation ward in Lagos while her case is being
investigated”.
Meanwhile, the National
Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has warned
Nigerians not to fall prey to fake test kits for Ebola disease.
Director-General of NAFDAC, Dr. Paul Orhii, who raised alarm over circulation
of the fake test kits and sanitizers in the market, cautioned Nigerians to be
careful.
Pple with Ebola must stop coming to nigeria
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