Doctor Dead As A result Of Lassa Fever At Nnewi Anambra State.

The Chief Medical Director, Prof. anthony Igwegbe, on friday in awka said that it was the first recorded case of lassa fever handled by the hospital.Igwegbe said that the doctors were broght in from Asaba delta.

A medical doctor has died of lassa fever at Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital (NAUTH), Nnewi, the management have confirmed.

The Chief Medical Director, Prof. anthony Igwegbe, on friday in awka said that it was the first recorded case of lassa fever handled by the hospital.

Igwegbe said that the doctors were broght in from Asaba delta.

Yes i can confirm it to you that a medical doctor who was brought in here from Asaba died of a suspected lassa fever case.

When he was brought as a suspected case, we took the samples to test and it turned out to be positive of lassa fever.

All stakeholders that have attended to him did so under the universal precaution of WHO when you have such cases, said the CMD.

Igwegbe said it was the only case of lassa fever being handled in the hospital and assured of continued precautionary measures.