EBOLA?: 3-Hospital Reject Woman vomiting Blood via Nose & Mouth In Lagos

The fearful question is if Ebola Virus Disease is back to Nigeria after being certified by World Health Organization (WHO) of Ebola free, as a female passenger with Chisco transport started vomiting blood through her mouth and nose. Scared by the development, other passengers were said to have taken to their heels as one of the passengers screamed that the pregnant woman was displaying Ebola symptoms. The prompt intervention of Chisco transport officials has saved a pregnant wom­an, who after alighting from one of the company’s buses at its terminal, Jibowu, Lagos.

It took the timely intervention of Chisco officials who made use of their standby ambulance to rush her to three different hospitals that rejected her when they realised that she was still bleeding. Narrating the incident a staffer of the company, simply identified as Juliet, said that the pas­senger, whose name is Joy, boarded their bus from Abuja to Lagos where the incident happened. “On October 12, 2014 at about 10.15 am, a passenger, who was preg­nant, alighted from one of our buses that just arrived from Abuja. Immedi­ately she alighted from the bus, she fell down and started vomiting through the nose and mouth. “The Jibowu branch manager called on the medical section, who organised an ambulance and took her to three dif­ferent hospitals who rejected her. She was finally admitted at the Mili­tary Hospital, Yaba, Lagos. After sev­eral tests, they informed us that she was hypertensive which led to convulsion. The hospital demanded that an initial deposit of N36,000 should be paid be­fore they could treat her. We paid the said amount and directed our workers to take turns in taking care of her. “This became necessary as we could not make contact with anyone who is related to her. We even discovered that she did not fill the next of kin column in the form we give our passengers. She later gave birth to a premature baby, and we had to pay another N5,000.”