{"id":189828,"date":"2020-02-01T15:48:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T14:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=189828"},"modified":"2020-02-01T15:48:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T14:48:53","slug":"lassa-fever-claims-second-life-in-enugu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=189828","title":{"rendered":"Lassa Fever claims second life in Enugu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<p>As Lassa Fever continues to spread across the country, Enugu State has recorded another casualty.<\/p>\n<p>AREWA.NG, learnt that this is the second Lassa Fever death in Enugu State.<\/p>\n<p>The first was at the Enugu State University Teaching Hospital, Parklane.<\/p>\n<p>The management of the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, UNTH, Enugu has now confirmed the death of another Lassa Fever Patient brought to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the hospital, Dr Obinna Onodugo said: \u201cit\u2019s confirmed that a case of Lassa Fever came to UNTH today (30\/1\/2020) and died at our Emergency and Accident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are currently tracing contacts. We are also working with the Enugu State epidemiology Team and the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, to ensure that proper measures are taken at the mortuary and to protect staff against new cases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe CMAC\/DCMACS have procured some other materials needed to keep our staff safe.<br \/>\n\u201cThere is no cause for alarm,\u201d he said in a statement on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>UNTH management said it has medication for all those who have been exposed directly or remotely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are advised to be very careful these days and to have a high index of suspicion, while observing universal safety precautions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The CMD urged his staff to privately call his attention or that of the CMAC if they notice any lapses so they can be addressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMay God be with us all as we try to discharge our duties creditably,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Lassa Fever continues to spread across the country, Enugu State has recorded another casualty. AREWA.NG, learnt that this is the second Lassa Fever death in Enugu State. The first was at the Enugu State University Teaching Hospital, Parklane. The management of the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, UNTH, Enugu has now confirmed the death [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":189829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,1,3],"tags":[13309,4866,703,1967,243],"class_list":["post-189828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-more","category-news","tag-13309","tag-crime","tag-enugu","tag-lassa-fever","tag-nigeria"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=189828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/189829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}