Ebola kills in Port Harcourt: AT least 70 people at risk of infection

Ebola kills in Port Harcourt: AT least 70 people at risk of infection

The recklessness of a doctor who flouted the directive of the Ministry of Health and  secretly treated a diplomat, who had contact with the index case, Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer, has died of Ebola in Port Harcourt.

The doctor, who is yet to be named, died on Friday. His wife has also taken ill and has been quarantined in Port Harcourt. However, the diplomat the doctor treated is still alive.


The diplomat was part of the team who met with Patrick Sawyer in Lagos. He flew to Port Harcourt, Rivers State for treatment, evading Nigerian federal government surveillance for the disease. The late doctor then took him to a hotel for treatment.

As a result of this, 70 people have been quarantined. The doctor's hospital, Good Heart Hospital in Rivers State, has been shut down. The unnamed hotel, where the secret treatment took place, has also been shut down.

The Minister of Health and the Rivers State government are expected to make a statement on the incident tomorrow.