Mumbai: Lalit Kumar Ahir, a resident of Vasai, in Maharashtra's Palghar district, who was admitted in a civic-run hospital for suspected ebola has been discharged as doctors confirmed that it was a false alarm.

Ahir, an IT professional, who recently arrived here from Lagos in Nigeria, was suffering from diarrhoea and had bouts of vomiting, panicked and got  in touch with the health department. Ahir was admitted in an isolated ward of a government hospital in Vasai.