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Ebola: First Consultant Hospital Lagos That Treated Late Patrick Sawyer To Receive ₦4million

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The Atedo N. A. Peterside Foundation [ANAP] has decided to give First Consultant Hospital in Obalende, Lagos State, where Nigeria’s first Ebola case was treated the sum of ₦4million. The announcement was made by Nigeria’s Health Minister, Onyebuchi Chukwu via a spokesperson, Don Nwomeh in a statement released. The statement read;

Founder of the foundation, Atedo Peterside, informed the ministry that all private hospitals affected by the outbreak would receive N100, 000 per bed space.
The hospital will receive N4 million since it has 40 bed spaces. Nigeria recorded its first Ebola case on July 20 when Liberian-American, Patrick Sawyer, came with the disease into Lagos. Mr. Sawyer died at First Consultant Hospital, Obalende, Lagos on July 24. So far, 12 people have tested positive to the deadly disease out of which five have died, including the Mr. Sawyer.

 

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