Two persons were yesterday confirmed dead from Lassa fever at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, even as a resident doctor has been infected with the disease. Confirming the development, the Chief Medical Director, LUTH, Prof Chris Bode, said not less than 100 hospital workers who were possibly exposed to the disease case are currently being monitored.
According to Bode, the patients who were presented very late died after spending a few days on admission.The first was a 39-year old pregnant lady with bleeding disorder who died after a stillbirth.
Bode also confirmed that a resident doctor from the Department of Anatomic and Molecular Pathology, who took part in the autopsy was later confirmed with the disease and is currently on admission and responding well to treatment at the Isolation Ward of the hospital.
In a related development, the Lagos state epidemiology unit has put out a notice to all heads of health departments in Ikorodu local government area over one of the corpses of the victims allegedly released from LUTH. The unit has directed health officials to list all contacts with the body. Unconfirmed report said the family had collected the corpse for burial, but the unit directed the officials to prevent the body from being buried in Imota, Ikorodu in order to prevent the spread of the disease.
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