- Sputnik International
Africa
Get the latest Africa news from Sputnik: breaking news, photos, videos, analysis, and features.

Liberian Hospital Discharges Last Ebola Patient

© AP Photo / Abbas DullehA health care worker assists a collegue inside a USAID, funded Ebola clinic in Monrovia, Liberia, Friday, Jan. 30, 2015. The World Health Organization says officials are now focused on ending the biggest-ever Ebola outbreak rather than just slowing the virus’ spread. In an update published Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015, the U.N. health agency said the three most affected countries _ Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia _ reported fewer than 100 cases in the past week, for the first time since June, 2014.
A health care worker assists a collegue inside a USAID, funded Ebola clinic in Monrovia, Liberia, Friday, Jan. 30, 2015. The World Health Organization says officials are now focused on ending the biggest-ever Ebola outbreak rather than just slowing the virus’ spread. In an update published Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015, the U.N. health agency said the three most affected countries _ Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia _ reported fewer than 100 cases in the past week, for the first time since June, 2014. - Sputnik International
Subscribe
Liberia’s Assistant Health Minister, Tolbert Nyansuah said the last Ebola patient in Liberia was discharged.

Russian doctor Valentine Safronov stands inside a mobile medical lab donated by the Russian government to assist with the Ebola outbreak in Conakry, Guinea. - Sputnik International
Africa
Russian Aluminum Giant RUSAL Opens Hospital for Ebola Patients in Guinea
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The last Ebola patient in West Africa's Liberia was discharged from local hospital on Thursday, the country's Ministry of Information said in a statement.

“We [Liberia] for the first time as a country since the second wave [of the Ebola outbreak] will be discharging the last confirmed Ebola case, and there will be a discharge — ceremony on the known last Ebola case,” Liberia’s Assistant Health Minister, Tolbert Nyansuah was quoted as saying in the press release.

The announcement was made Wednesday at a news briefing in Liberia’s capital Monrovia.

Health care workers walk past boots that were washed to prevent the spread of the Ebola virus inside a USAID, funded Ebola clinic in Monrovia, Liberia, Friday, Jan. 30, 2015. The World Health Organization says officials are now focused on ending the biggest-ever Ebola outbreak rather than just slowing the virus’ spread. - Sputnik International
Africa
Ebola Death Toll in 3 Worst-Hit West African States Exceeds 9,000
The last known Ebola patient in Liberia, 58-year-old Beatrice Yardolo, underwent treatment in a Chinese-run Ebola treatment unit.

Ebola is a deadly disease that spreads through direct contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person, or though contact with contaminated clothing or possessions.

Liberia, along with two other West African countries Guinea and Sierra Leone has been worst-hit by the current Ebola outbreak, which started in late 2013. The outbreak in Liberia alone claimed 4,117 lives, according to the latest WHO data.

Newsfeed
0
To participate in the discussion
log in or register
loader
Chats
Заголовок открываемого материала