Posted on: 08:38 Wed, 27 Jan 2016



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.

Vanguard