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To prevent an outbreak of the Ebola Viral Disease
(EVD), the Federal Government yesterday
approved the extension of the current holiday of
primary and secondary schools across the
country until further notice.
The development, government stated, is part of
measures to curb the spread of Ebola. Also, the
National Council on Health (NCH) has banned the
inter-state transportation of corpses with
immediate effect.
To address the global emergency, the World
Health Organisation (WHO) yesterday approved
the use of untested experimental drugs to treat
the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa.
Senior Special Assistant to the President on Youth
and Students Matters, Comrade Jude Imagwe,
who disclosed the postponement of school
resumption in Abuja yesterday did not state how
long the students would be on holiday. He said
that President Goodluck Jonathan was wary of
the danger of the disease to the nation’s future
generation and as a result ordered that the
schools remained on holiday till the country find a
way out of the outbreak.
“He advised that as a President, he did not desire
that our secondary and primary schools should
be opened at this time because we have high
population of young brothers and sisters who
want to see themselves grow from primary and
graduate tomorrow. “We cannot have what it
takes to have eye on each of these brothers and
sisters: the future of this country in their classes,”
he said.
He spoke at a one-day forum on Tertiary
Institutions Students Health Insurance
Programme organised by the National
Universities Commission (NUC) and NHIS.
Imagwe, who charged Nigerians to be conscious
of their environment as well as maintain healthy
lifestyle in the face of Ebola outbreak, also
cautioned against the use of untested and
unscientific drugs as a prevention or cure to the
virus.
While advising Nigerians to value their life and
those of others around them, Imagwe also
berated those suspected to have the virus and
had been put under surveillance but escaped.
This, he noted, constitutes great health risk to
many unsuspecting Nigerians. The WHO said at a
news conference in Geneva yesterday that the
use of untested drugs was ethical, provided
certain conditions were met.
The drug, ZMapp, has only been tested on
monkeys and has not yet been evaluated for
safety in humans.
The organisation had on August 11 convened a
consultation of experts to consider and assess the
ethical implications for clinical decision-making of
the potential use of unregistered interventions.
The panel said any provision of experimental
Ebola medicines would require “informed
consent, freedom of choice, confidentiality,
respect for the person, preservation of dignity
and involvement of the community.”
The WHO statement said: “In the particular
circumstances of this outbreak, and provided
certain conditions are met, the panel reached
consensus that it is ethical to offer unproven
interventions with as yet unknown efficacy and
adverse effects, as potential treatment or
prevention.”
The ethics meeting was called after experimental
Ebola drug ZMapp, made by U.S. biotech company
Mapp Biopharmaceutical, was given to two
American health workers infected with Ebola in
Liberia.
Two batches of experimental treatments were
reported to be heading to Liberia yesterday, the
first delivery of untested Ebola drugs in Africa.
The UN health agency said more than 1000
people had died so far from the illness in West
Africa, with authorities recording 1,848 suspected
or confirmed cases.
The virus, spread by direct contact with bodily
fluids, was detected in Guinea in March and has
since spread to Sierra Leone, Liberia and possibly
Nigeria.
Two Americans and a Spanish priest, who
contracted Ebola in Liberia, had received a dose
of the treatment never tested in humans. The
Americans have showed signs of improvement
but the priest died yesterday.
Meanwhile, the National Council on Health (NCH)
has banned the transportation of corpses from
one state to another with immediate effect. This
decision was reached yesterday during an
emergency meeting of NCH held in Abuja which
lasted for about 10 hours.
The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu,
who is the chairman of the council, said the ban is
to curtail further spread of the virus.
The minister said that any person wishing to
transport the remains of the family member must
get approval from the Federal Ministry of Health
and all the necessary test must be done on the
corpse to make sure that the dead is free of
Ebola.
The resolution of the NCH, read by the minister,
states: “Council directed the transportation of
corpses into Nigeria as well as inter-state
transportation be banned until further notice
except with the approved waivers that may be
issued by the Federal Ministry of Health.
“Council directed federal, state ministries of
health as well as health and human service
secretariat of the Federal Capital Territory
Administration (FCTA) to provide adequate
incentives to health workers who participate in
the management of EVD patients to encourage
them to be active in the containment of the EVD.
“The Council further directed that they should be
provided with life insurance coverage. Council
directed that the Centre for Disease Control
(NCDC) should re-circulate protocols and SOPs for
management of EVD victims while Federal
Government should provide specifications and
support states with special Personal Protective
Equipment (PPE).
“Council directed Navy, Customs and Immigration
services to collaborate with the Port Health
Services to strengthen boarder monitoring and
patrol for EVD.
“Council directed the Federal Government to
make whole body scanners available at all the
designated Port of Entry; it also directed that the
Federal Government should assist states to
establish isolation tents that should cater for at
least 20 people.
“Council urges the Nigerian Medical Association
(NMA) to suspend its strike forthwith and
contribute its quota in the ongoing response to
this national health emergency.”
Director, Port Health Service at the Federal
Ministry of Health, Dr. Sani Gwarzo, disclosed that
they have strengthened all the border areas with
adequate equipment and also health workers for
screening.
“The Port Health Service is providing equal level of
surveillance services in all the entering points;
land, air and sea. We have a thermometer which
we use in screening.
This thermometer can detect people with high
temperature which when we probe further we
can know if it is probable case of Ebola virus or
any other sickness,” he explained. Gwarzo
lamented the shortage of health workers in the
Port and said that the agency is in deficit of above
1000 workers.
President Jonathan has called on West African
leaders to evolve collaborative strategies that
would help control and contain Ebola within the
sub-region.
He said through such deliberate effort can help in
checking its spread and further threat to human
lives.
The President stated this yesterday while
receiving the new Ambassador of Guinea to
Nigeria, Mr. Gaoussou Toure, who presented his
letters of credence at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
He commended the containment measures so far
taken by West African countries that have been
affected by the disease, stressing that more
concerted intra-regional cooperation and action
needs to be developed.
“A problem that affects one of us affects all. We
may need to come together as a region to
strengthen our containment measures. I am
however pleased that serious measures are being
taken to control the spread of the disease,”
Jonathan said.
Also speaking at separate audience after receiving
letters of credence from the new Ambassador of
Germany, Michael Peter Zenner, and Torben
Antonio Gettermann, the new Ambassador of
Denmark, President Jonathan stated that the days
of electoral violence in Nigeria are over and that
the 2015 general election will be free and fair

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madridfc: You saw all these 'live' on LTV?

as in eh, meself dey wonder am

Toor .... Se Ltv na Nta ni?




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You read saw it live on TV indeed


#EbolaThings

This is seriously serious, God where did we go wrong.

Make dem no dis tin enter Unis oo
Afterall people wey dey go work fit get am too so they should sbut down every workplace, market etc
make dem just shut down naija


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