Ebola Scare in Anambra, Government Seals Hospital

A hospital has been sealed off and its workers and patients quarantined due to an Ebola disease scare in Anambra 
State today.

According to the Anambra Commissioner of Health, Josephat Akabuike, the measure followed 
information received by the government that a man whose body was brought back from Liberia at the
 weekend, might have died of the killer disease. He said that information available to the government 
indicated that the body was brought back from Liberia through Lagos and deposited in the mortuary 
at Nkwelle-Ezenaka in Oyi Local Government of the state. 
“Part of the briefing is to tell you what we are doing to make sure we don’t allow the deadly
 virus to come into the state. What actually called for this is that we have a report that a corpse

was brought through Lagos and the deceased was said to have been taken from

 Liberia where  of course you know there are cases of the disease.  
The corpse was said to have been brought to Nigeria and deposited somewhere in

Nkwelle-Ezunaka and the ministry was alerted and that is why we are taking all these measures.”

The commissioner said that Governor Willie Obiano had already directed the Police Command in the 
state to cordon off the place until the necessary tests were carried out. He further said that Federal 
Government had also sent medical experts from the Federal Ministry of Health, Abuja, to Anambra to 
carry out the test at the hospital premises.