A pregnant woman and two health workers have been confirmed dead following the outbreak of Lassa fever in Kaduna. The trio include a medical doctor who was undergoing his national youth service year as a corp and a community health nurse died at the Saint Louis Hospital in Zonkwa, area of Zango Kataf local government of the state.
The doctor and the nurse is said to have contacted the lassa fever disease after conducting an operation on a pregnant woman who later died of the same disease two weeks ago.
The state commissioner for health, Professor Jonathan Andrew Nok revealed that two weeks ago, there was a pregnant woman that visited the Saint Louis Hospital after she was referred from a clinic in Kamuru.
‘‘She was pregnant and an operation was conducted on her by the doctor and nurse. She subsequently died.”
“The two individuals that died were the people that actually attended to the pregnant woman. She died about two weeks ago. No one thought they would die like that after the woman. The woman died of lassa disease. She was buried properly. And it was after her death that symptoms of lassa started to show on the medical doctor and the community nurse,” he added.
