Rivers govt contradict health minister. Says PH woman died of cardiac arrest not Ebola

The Rivers state government has contradicted yesterday's report by the Health Minister who said an elderly woman died from the Ebola Virus Disease on Tuesday September 2nd in Port Harcourt.

At a press briefing today in Port Harcourt, the Rivers state Commissioner for Health, Dr Samson Parker said the elderly woman died of cardiac arrest and not Ebola as stated by the Minister of Health through his media spokesperson, Dan Nwomeh. The elderly woman shared the same hospital room with the late Dr Iyke Enemuo who died of Ebola virus disease in Port Harcourt. She was quarantined alongside a doctor and a pharmacist who were staff of the late Port Harcourt doctor's clinic, Sam Steel Clinic.