Zambia : Suspected Ebola case recorded at Kitwe Central Hospital

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Dr. Joel Montgomery, team leader for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Ebola Response Team in Liberia, is dressed in his personal protective equipment while adjusting a colleague's PPE before entering the Ebola treatment unit in Monrovia, Liberia's capital city in this recent photo released on September 16, 2014
Dr. Joel Montgomery, team leader for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Ebola Response Team in Liberia, is dressed in his personal protective equipment while adjusting a colleague's PPE before entering the Ebola treatment unit in Monrovia, Liberia's capital city in this recent photo released on September 16, 2014

A suspected Ebola case has been recorded at Kitwe Central Hospital on the Copperbelt.

The patient, a twenty five -year old female, has since been isolated at Garnerton clinic in Kitwe.

But the Copperbelt provincial medical office has ruled out possibilities of the case being Ebola.

Copperbelt Provincial medical officer Consity Mwale said the patient presented signs of Ebola such as coughing, sneezing and vomiting that commenced a month ago indicating that the case is unlikely to be Ebola.

 

In a statement availed to ZANIS in Kitwe today by the Copperbelt Provincial Medical Office, Dr Mwale also stated that investigations by the medical officers on the patient revealed that the patient also had a history of vomiting blood and passing blood stained stool.

He however stated that the patient did not complain of any fever and had not been in contact with an Ebola patient and had also not traveled to any Ebola affected regions recently.

However, Dr Mwale has said that the patient has since been transferred from Kitwe Central Hospital to the isolation centre at Garnerton clinic.

He described the condition of the patient as stable after being put on antibiotics and fluids treatment.

He also stated that the patient’s blood samples are yet to be tested for Ebola virus.

 

And Dr Mwale has assured members of the public of protection from Ebola outbreak through the measures that have been instituted by the Ministry of Health and Community Development, Mother and Child Health.

Ebola has broken out in some West African countries where it has killed over a thousand people while in the Democratic Republic of Congo-DRC new cases have also been recorded.

No confirmed Ebola case has so far been recorded in Zambia.

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32 COMMENTS

  2. The retrospect of the Government is to avoid a national crisis; however this case with the above mentioned woman, wasn’t handled in a humanitarian way. Despite her pronounced negative or positive she was taken into isolation in a community! an active community! where I have friends and family. Now question is are we governed by good governance or not. I am a citizen of this Country and I will not allow to be stepped on or anyone else and we need the real truth. Is Ebola here or No

  3. Can the Isolation Clinic be really Isolated, Garnerton is till a residential area people of God.He, the Minister also stated that the patient’s blood samples are “YET” to be tested for Ebola virus, what is there to wait for because this is the matter of agency………….!

  5. Its does mean if someone said suspected ebola case. Ninshi ebola ilimo no they the have to investigate.kaili suspect does mean the person is guilty

  8. God Almight Arise let No Ebola move an inch,Arise & Let it scater by The Fire of the Holy Ghost!!

  29. Please come and remuv da isolation center frm here we to r warid abt our livs…….tke da center to a more isolated place wth no people livn dre .we beg u in Gods name

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