LASG -Lassa fever patient set to make full recovery

Lagos State Government announced that one of
the two remaining Lassa fever patients at the
Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, will
make a full recovery adding that as test carried
on him came out negative.
Responding to questions the briefing, Idris refuted
the rumour that the two victims had died.


He said:
“We have two cases now and they are
doing very well, one of them in LUTH has
zero converted it means he has now
become negative based on the treatment,
so if you come out very early you can be
treated.”
The Commissioners explained that the state
government had put measures in place to ensure
that residents were protected.
In regards to the immunization exercise, he said
the government was targeting over 4 million
children for measles.
The commissioner also noted that the exercise,
which will hold between January 28, and
February 1, 2016 in 20 Local Government Areas,
LGAs, and 37 Local Council Development Areas,
LCDAs, was aimed at reducing childhood mortality
and morbidity from measles infection among
children from age 9 months to 59 months.