Panic has taken over the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital as a sick woman perishes from the deadly Lassa fever disease.
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A sense of panic has enveloped the staff and patients of the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH), following the reported death of a 22-year old woman from Lassa fever in the hospital on Wednesday.
According to The Nation, it was gathered that the decease, Itodo Christabel, had become sick in Benue State where she was hospitalized and requested to be transferred to a hospital in Calabar so she could be close to her husband, soldier, who is in the Cross River State capital.
It was learnt she was admitted at the Eburutu Barracks clinic in Calabar and later transferred to the Navy Hospital in the same city where she was for some days before she was taken to the UCTH, where she died less than 12 hours after she was admitted.
Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Thomas Agan, confirmed the incident.
He told reporters that there was no cause for alarm as the matter was under control.
He said the woman was brought to them when her situation was critical.
He however worried about doctors and nurses who attended to her and said they have been quarantined and the hospital will officially write to the Health Minister and Director of the Centre for Disease Control.