The incident, fuelled
by rumours that the Lassa virus may have spread from neighbouring Ekiti State, led to other
medical personnel as well as patients at the Emergency Unit of the hospital, fleeing the
scene.
Because the provisions of proposed rule were limited to individually identifiable health information that was reduced to electronic form, many communications that occur between emergency
medical personnel and law enforcement officials at the
scene of a crime would not have been covered
by the proposed provisions.