Second Sudanese National at Hyderabad’s Gandhi Hospital Tests Negative for Ebola

Hyderabad's Gandhi Hospital has confirmed that the second of two Sudanese nationals admitted to its isolation ward has tested negative for Ebola, bringing a measure of relief to an already anxious city.

The patient, Abdul Razeem Mohammed, 23 , is a student pursuing higher education at a private university in Hyderabad . He had been admitted to Apollo Hospitals, Nanakramguda for yellow fever treatment when he developed a fresh bout of fever, prompting doctors to refer him to Gandhi Hospital's dedicated Ebola isolation ward. Samples were sent to the National Institute of Virology (NIV) in Pune , supervised by the ICMR , and results confirmed no traces of the Ebola virus.

The first patient, Mohammed Yahya Yagoub Ahmed, 35 , had arrived at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport from Ethiopia on June 4 and was flagged during thermal screening after presenting with fever and a travel history involving Uganda and South Sudan , both currently on high alert. He had travelled to Hyderabad specifically for knee surgery and tested negative on June 5. His samples were processed by the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) , with Dr. Vamsi Krishna, Nodal Officer for Ebola at Gandhi Hospital, confirming the result.

A third patient remains under observation at Gandhi Hospital, with results still awaited. The city is not entirely in the clear yet.

The alarm around these cases is entirely justified given the scale of what is unfolding globally . On May 15, 2026 , the DRC's Ministry of Health confirmed an outbreak of Ebola caused by the Bundibugyo virus in Ituri Province, the 17th Ebola outbreak in DRC since the virus was first identified in 1976. On May 17, the WHO declared it a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) . Critically, the Bundibugyo strain has no approved vaccine or specific treatment , making containment the only credible response.

The DRC had reported 381 confirmed cases and 64 deaths , with Ituri Province accounting for the vast majority. Uganda had reported 19 confirmed cases and two deaths . WHO chief Tedros warned that contact tracing in Ituri stood at only 44 percent , far below the 90 percent needed to contain the outbreak, calling the global response still firmly behind. India's thermal screening protocols at international airports and the swift isolation machinery at Gandhi Hospital have performed exactly as intended in both Hyderabad cases.