WHO Commends Nigeria’s Efforts In Containing Ebola

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has commended efforts made in containing the spread of the Ebola Virus Disease in Nigeria. A comment posted on their … Continue reading WHO Commends Nigeria’s Efforts In Containing Ebola


Ebola patient Held By health workers

Ebola patient Held By health workersThe World Health Organisation (WHO) has commended efforts made in containing the spread of the Ebola Virus Disease in Nigeria.

A comment posted on their website

said “the situation in Lagos, Nigeria, where the first imported case was detected in July, looks reassuring”.

It further noted that “Intensive contact tracing, conducted by Nigerian health officials and staff from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has not, so far, identified any further confirmed cases outside the initial transmission chain.

“The intensity of the search and monitoring effort raises cautious optimism that further spread of the virus in Nigeria can be stopped. The search for additional cases continues, as does the current high level of vigilance”,

“At present, the city’s 12 confirmed cases are all part of a single chain of transmission”, it said.

United States Donates Body Scanners

Meanwhile, the Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, said the United States government has donated 30 body scanners for screening at airports and border areas.

He said the donation was following the meeting President Goodluck Jonathan held with the United States President to fashion out ways of checking the spread of the virus.

The Nigerian President had approved an intervention fund of 1.9 billion Naira last week to help contain the spread of the virus that has claimed the lives of five persons in Lagos state, the only state with reported cases of Ebola.

Ebola was first reported in Nigeria in July, when a Liberia-American man, Patrick Sawyer tested positive to the virus.

Sawyer died on July 25.