The Federal Government has formally
requested for the special vaccine just
developed by the United States for
treating of Ebola Virus, Minister of
Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu disclosed on
Wednesday
The Minister said request for the vaccine
was to to demonstrate government’s
resolve in tackling the spread of Ebola
Virus in Nigeria.
Two people, a Liberian, Sawyer, and a
nurse who treated him had been the two
casualties of Ebola Virus in Nigeria.
Two medical doctors of US origin who
were in Liberia for treatment of Ebola
drugs had been reported to have showed
signs of improvement in health after they
were treated with the experimental drugs
for treating Ebola Virus, after they were
returned to US for further medical
attention.
The Health Minister said he had written to
the United States Centre for Disease
Control for assistance in producing the
experimental drugs being used in treating
the US missionary doctors infected with
the virus available to Nigeria.
However, the government has raised the
alarm that the issue of Ebola virus with
six confirmed Nigerian victims has
become a matter of national emergency.
The Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran
Maku, and the Minister of Health, Prof.
Onyebuchi Chukwu, made government’s
position known while briefing State House
correspondents of the outcome of the
weekly Federal Executive Council ( FEC).
The FEC meeting was presided over by
Vice President Namadi Sambo.
The Health Minister said said the
government had decided to embark on
mass recruitment of health personnel to
strengthen the team managing the
situation in Lagos where all the Nigerian
cases were recorded.
He expressed hope that the Nigeria
Medical Association will soon call off its
industrial action to join in the emergency
service since government had met almost
all their demands.
Chukwu added that the government had
also started the process of procuring
isolation tents that will be distributed to
all the states of the Federation and Abuja
to cater for those who will be
quarantined because of the virus.
This, he said, had become necessary
because residents were raising objections
to housing the patients close to them.
He put the cost of one of such isolation
tents at about N20m.
“We have a national emergency. Indeed,
everyone in the world is at risk. Nobody is
immune. The Nigerian experience had
alerted the world because every country
is connected by flights,” he said.
He further disclosed that the government
had set up a special team to provide
counseling to patients and their families.
He said the Minister of Information would
soon visit Lagos State to assess the
situation and sensitise residents on the
deadly virus.
He minister advised the public to avoid
handshake as much as possible if they
could afford it, describing the virus as
both contagious and infectious.
He said the virus could also be contacted
through the sharing of bedspreads, pillow
cases and towels among other personal
effects with infected persons.
On update on casualty, Chukwu said
Nigeria has so far recorded seven
confirmed cases of Ebola virus, including
the first case of the late Liberian-
American, Patrick Sawyer, who imported
it to the country.
He said one of the nurses who cared for
Sawyer was the first known Nigerian to
die of the decease on Tuesday.
He said the other five victims were
currently in an isolated ward in Lagos.
As part of strategies to rise to the national
emergency, Chukwu said a
website, www.ebolaalert.org , has been
designed to offer information on the
virus. http://www.newspotng.com/fg-request-for-emergency-drugs-on-ebola-from-us/
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Hmmmmmm! This isn't getting any better. :'

Some people are still asking what makes US a leading country on earth, some even exhibits their ignorance by matching US with China or Russia.

What a shame? While the gov allow our own health institutions and doctors to die naturally, they are going to reap from another govt's efforts. Useless country called Nigeria. What if the US govt is like our own Govt, where would have Nigerian govt run to in a situation like this?

danot1030: Some people are still asking what makes US a leading country on earth, some even exhibits their ignorance by matching US with China or Russia.

This!!!