A medical officer, who is a staff of an international humanitarian organisation, Medecins Sans Frontieres, otherwise known as Doctors Without Border, has died of coronovirus.
MSF Head of Mission in Nigeria, Siham Hajaj, confirmed the death of the medical official in a statement on Monday.
The statement read: “Our dear colleague died on 18 April, in Maiduguri, and post-mortem test results indicated that they were positive for COVID-19.
“Due to patient confidentiality, we cannot disclose the identity of this patient,“ Hajaj said in the statement.”
The patient was said to be the index case of COVID-19 in Borno State.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) also confirmed his death in a tweet on Monday.
Until his death, the deceased whose identity was withheld, was working in Pulka, a district in Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State housing thousands of displaced persons.
Hajaj has said the humanitarian organisation would continue to provide essential treatment for communities in Nigeria.