Wife Of Ebola Survivor Delivers Healthy Baby In Lagos Hospital

About a month after one of the Ebola survivors, Dr. Ada Igonoh, delivered her baby girl in the US (read here), the wife of another Ebola survivor, Dr. Adewale Adejoro, Mrs. Opeyemi Adejoro, has been safely delivered of a healthy Ebola-free baby girl at First Consultant Medical Centre in Lagos, Vanguard reports. The Hospital’s Medical Director, Dr. Benjamin Ohiaeri announced the birth of the baby who was delivered on Monday evening.

The baby girl said to weigh 3kg at birth was reportedly delivered following strict guidelines and recommendations from the Centre for Disease Control (CDC), USA, through the pre-natal and delivery stages.

The new dad, Dr. Adewale Adejoro had contracted Ebola virus when he went to set an intravenous, IV line, for the Liberian Patrick Sawyer on the night before his death.

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Dr. Adejoro found it “very, very difficult” to drink enough ORS to stay hydrated. He was the only one of the six survivors interviewed by Dr. Cleary who had received IV fluids which aided his eventual recovery.

Congratulations to the new parents!