The Cross River State Government has
confirmed four suspected cases of Lassa Fever in the State with one of the
patients who is a pregnant woman dead.
The woman is suspected to have died
as a result of the virus at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH).
The woman whose age is yet to be
known, is said to have traveled from Taraba State and was first admitted
at the Nigerian Navy Hospital along Moore Road Calabar, before she was
transferred to the intensive Care Unit of the University of Calabar Teaching
Hospital UCTH.
Confirming the incident, Cross River
State Commissioner for Health, Inyang Asibong who spoke to Channels Television,
said that the deceased had to be transferred to the University of Calabar
Teaching Hospital following her critical state before she finally died.
She further disclosed that, samples
of blood of the deceased has been taken for proper diagnosis, assuring that
measures have been put in place to avoid spread.
