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#Ebola: Woman Dies In Ekiti After 4 Hospitals Rejected To Treat Her

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The Government of Ekiti State has debunked rumours of an outbreak of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease in the state over the unfortunate death of a woman, who reportedly vomited and collapsed in premises of the State Ministry of Health after she was rejected by four different private hospitals because of the text messages circulated by some unidentified people suspected to be in the Healthcare sector that tagged her ebola patient. At a briefing, Commissioner for Health, Professor Olusola Fasubaa said….On 20th August,2014, a 55-year-old health care worker at Ogotun- Ekiti, who was said not to have had any complaints of illness in the last two months and no current history of travel outside the state (according to her neighbours) got to the Data Bank of the Ministry of Health at about 1.pm and collapsed after coughing out blood and subsequently vomited and she was immediately tagged Ebola victim without an adequate history taken and people started running away. “The woman subsequently died