Staff at The Nairobi Hospital who believe they had unprotected contact with an Ebola patient’s blood or body fluids have been told to report immediately to the hospital’s Infection Prevention and Control or Occupational Health teams. The instruction follows confirmation that a patient recently managed at the facility had Ebola Virus Disease. In an internal memorandum dated October 6, CEO Felix Osano said the Ministry of Health had formally announced the case as Kenya’s first confirmed imported case of Ebola. Osano said the hospital escalated infection prevention and control measures as soon as Ebola was suspected, isolating the patient and limiting access to the clinical area involved. The memorandum was addressed to staff and ASA doctors. The hospital is to begin contact tracing with the Ministry of Health and national public health authorities, establishing who may have been exposed and grading each person’s level of risk. Its Infection Prevention and Control and Occupational Health teams are undertaking that assessment. Employees who had relevant contact with the patient will be contacted individually and followed up under Ministry of Health protocols. Healthcare workers and others who interacted directly with the patient have been identified and documented. The hospital is also reviewing the patient’s movement through the facility from the point of presentation through subs...
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