BY AGENCY REPORTER
A 34-year-old Nigerian woman has been kept under observation in a special separate ward, set up as a precautionary measure for monitoring suspected Ebola cases, at the Government Rajaji Hospital in India, as authorities track 821 passengers.
She was placed in an isolated ward on Wednesday.
The Indian Health Ministry added that another Nigerian woman was being held at Delhi airport. [eap_ad_1] “One passenger travelling from Nigeria has been found symptomatic and quarantined at isolation facility at Delhi airport. Her report is awaited,” the Ministry said.
Hospital officials, however, ruled out the possibility of the woman being infected with the deadly Ebola Virus Disease and said she would be discharged after prescribed days of observation.
The woman was said to be an HIV patient and had complained of throat pain and headache. She was tested at the Anti-Retroviral Therapy unit of the hospital and admitted to the separate ward, outlookIndia.com said.
The India government which has started risk categorisation of passengers from Ebola-affected countries at Indian airports as high, medium and low said the Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme was tracking all passengers carrying any amount of risk.
The Indian Health Ministry said Wednesday that 821 passengers were being tracked for Ebola in the country with most of them belonging to states of Maharashtra, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
“Today, 45 passengers were enrolled for follow up in their respective states through state Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP) units. As on date, a cumulative number of 821 passengers are being tracked. Most of them are in the States of Maharashtra, Kerala and Tamil Nadu,” a Health Ministry release said.
IDSPs is tracking such passengers, the details of which are provided to them by the Airport Health Organisation. The Ministry said two passengers who were admitted in RML Hospital earlier for further treatment after being tested negative for Ebola, have responded to anti-malarial treatment and are afebrile now and one of them has now been discharged. It said that 148 passengers from the affected countries have arrived at the Airports of Mumbai (30), Delhi (92), Kochi (8), Bangalore (15) and Chennai (3) in the last 24 hours.
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