Barely a month after one of the ebola survivor Ada Igonoh delivered of a
baby girl, the wife of Ebola survivor Mrs. Opeyemi Adejoro has been
safely delivered of a healthy Ebola-free baby girl at First Consultant
Medical Centre, Lagos.
The hospital’s Medical Director, Dr. Benjamin Ohiaeri announced the
birth of the baby who was delivered at 7.24pm on 1st December 2015.
The baby girl, weighing 3kg at birth (its placenta 450g), a product
of a term gestation was delivered following strict guidelines and
recommendations from the Centre for Disease Control (CDC), USA, through
the pre-natal and delivery stages.
It could be recalled that Dr. Adewale Adejoro husband of Mrs. Opeyemi
Adejoro contacted ebola virus when he went to set an IV line for Mr.
Patrick Sawyer on the night before his death, the patient reached out
and shook the doctor’s hand just before the doctor slipped on his
gloves. Still, Dr. Adejoro told Dr. Cleary that he could not say for
certain whether that slip led to his Ebola infection. Between a week and
10 days later, Dr. Adejoro’s symptoms began.
Dr. Adejoro found it “very, very difficult” to drink enough ORS to
stay hydrated. He was the only one of the six survivors Dr. Cleary
interviewed who received IV fluids, which aided his eventual recovery.