{"id":9669,"date":"2018-04-05T21:56:37","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T03:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=9669"},"modified":"2018-04-05T21:56:37","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T03:56:37","slug":"nigerian-doctors-want-proper-protection-equipments-or","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/news\/nigerian-doctors-want-proper-protection-equipments-or\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian doctors want proper protection equipments or refuse attending to Lassa fever patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"lx-stream-post__header gs-o-media\">\n<div class=\"gs-o-media__body\">\n<ul>\n<li class=\"lx-stream-post__header-title gel-great-primer-bold\"><em><strong><span class=\"lx-stream-post__header-text\">Nigerian doctors\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"lx-stream-post__header-text\">angered as Lassa fever spreads to\u00a0\u00a020 states in Nigeria, killing 142 people since January.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>8 Nigerian doctors had died of the Lassa disease\u00a0contracted from patients in 2018<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The killer disease with no vaccine<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"lx-stream-post__contributor gs-o-media\">\n<div class=\"lx-stream-post__contributor-img gs-o-media__img lx-stream-post__contributor-img--internal\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lx-stream-post__body gel-body-copy\">\n<div class=\"lx-rta \">\n<div class=\"lx-stream-post-body\">\n<figure class=\"lx-stream-post-body__media-asset lx-media-asset lx-media-asset--image lx-media-asset--landscape\"><figcaption class=\"lx-media-asset__caption gel-brevier\"><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nigerian doctors may start refusing to attend to patients with Lassa fever if they are not provided with the right equipment to protect themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Mike Ozovehe Ogirima, president of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), told BBC Yoruba that eight doctors had died of the disease since the beginning of the year after contracting it from patients.<\/p>\n<p>He issued the warning as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) issued its latest figures showing that Lassa fever has now spread to 20 states in Nigeria, killing 142 people since January.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Ogirima said the authorities should do more than just \u201cenough\u201d to end the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>Lassa fever is usually transmitted to humans via food and objects contaminated with rodent urine or faeces.<\/p>\n<p>Health Minister Isaac Adewole told the BBC the government was putting in more resources to tackle the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>He admitted the government was worried with increase in the number of health practitioners contacting the disease.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt represents a new dimension because for doctors and others it is human-to-human [transmission].<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we are confident that in the next one or two months everything will fizzle out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Most people who catch Lassa will have only mild symptoms such as fever, headache and general weakness.<\/p>\n<p>However, in severe cases, it can mimic another deadly haemorrhagic fever, Ebola, causing bleeding through the nose, mouth and other parts of the body.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian doctors\u00a0angered as Lassa fever spreads to\u00a0\u00a020 states in Nigeria, killing 142 people since January. 8 Nigerian doctors had died of the Lassa disease\u00a0contracted from patients in 2018 The killer disease with no vaccine Nigerian doctors may start refusing to attend to patients with Lassa fever if they are not provided with the right equipment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"news-category":[323],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nigerian doctors want proper 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