Benin - Cotonou: a patient suspected of Ebola at St. Rita - not Ebola

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Psychosis in Cotonou: A patient suspected at St. Rita

Published Monday, October 27, 2014 | 24 hours in Benin

Yesterday Sunday, October 26 in the evening elements of SAMU covered from head to foot like the agents treating Ebola cases came for a patient at St. Rita neighborhood of Cotonou in the streets of the former agency PTT.

If their clothing created doubts about the exact nature of the disease in question, psychosis came from two other major events. First, during the past week, men and women dressed like those we see face to the case of Ebola, made ​​several round trips in this house.

Then yesterday after the departure of the ambulance, the patient's personal effects including a mattress covered with blood, were thrown on the court.

Explanations of UAS

Asked by dialing [95 36 11 02-> tel: 95 36 11 02], an agent of Samu recognizes that visits were conducted in the week to a patient and dress precautions were imposed facing any suspected cases.

The officer also confirmed that the patient was transported by ambulance to the hospital. Nevertheless, he did not confirmed whether or not it is a case of Ebola. According to him the blood stains are due to the fact the patient to be subject to "gaps". Only analyzes that follow certainly will clarify this case.

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Re: Benin - Cotonou: a patient suspected of Ebola at St. Rita

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October 28, 2014

Alert around a Ebola case in Saint Rita neighborhood: no patient with Ebola in the country
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Benin has not yet registered, on the date of Monday, October 27, no cases of Ebola patient. The alarm given by the people of St. Rita in Cotonou, Thursday, Oct. 23, is not a case of someone with the disease.

This is the quintessence of the press conference yesterday, at the Ministry of Health, by Deputy Chief of Staff of the tenant of the premises, the national director of public health, the director of emergency medical services assistance and some managers of these directions.

"We often have to deal with alerts of cases of Ebola patients and we will arrange as if it was the case." Well, here what happened from Thursday 23 to Sunday, October 26 at Saint Rita neighborhood of Cotonou, said Dr. Abubakar Moufalilou, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Minister of Health, yesterday Monday, Oct. 27, inside the department during a press conference. To further explain the scenario experienced by the people of St. Rita , Dr. Martin Chobli, director of emergency medical services (EMS Benin), reported that Thursday, October 23, his service was called to a suspected case of Ebola patient. According to the received call, it would be a patient, from Guinea and had a high fever. Having dispatched a team to the scene, continued Dr. Martin Chobli, the following diagnosis was made: the patient was actually hyperthermic (temperature was high), he comes from Equatorial Guinea (not Guinea Conakry, where the virus prevails). Other clinical features, the patient has a major lack of magnesium, which causing joint pain. He showed signs of infection and was not fully conscious. It was not found signs of bleeding in the patient.

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