The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, on Wednesday said President Goodluck Jonathan has approved the immediate release of N200m to Lagos State Government as Federal Government’s direct support to the state in its efforts aimed at containing the spread of the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease.He also said he had written to a Canadian firm to see whether it can extend another trial drug, TKM Ebola, to Nigeria.Chukwu disclosed these while briefing State House correspondents of the highlights of the update on the virus which he presented at the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by President Goodluck Jonathan.He was joined at the press conference by the Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku; Minister of State, Power, Muhammed Wakil; Minister of State, Health, Khaliru Alhassan; and the Director-General of the Bureau of Public Procurement, Emeka Eze.The minister said any drug received would be made to pass through the nation’s Health Ethics Committee before it would be administered on any patient.He said, “Presently, we have not stopped requesting for drug, I have requested from a company in Canada and a lot of Nigerians including the High Commissioner in Nigeria to Canada are making that request to see whether the other drug being manufactured in Canada called TKM Ebola would also be extended to Nigeria.


August 20, 2014 by Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja

Yes! It must be curtailed and eradicated.

Only

^How much wr u xpecting

Forget politics....anything that will be done to end this virus is most welcomed

Mynd44: http://www.punchng.com/news/ebola-fg-releases-n200m-to-lagos/

Tnx bro for that

We shall overcome it God willing

Mynd44: .

Bro, FF me back.

Hope they will not quarantine the money

Why should we believe this money will get to Lagos?
Didn't Johnathan earlier release N1.9billion? Where is it?
Didn't dangote donate n150million? where is it?

dimples2: Hope they will not quarantine the money

Funny girl

Joenice: Funny girl

hi joe

5minsmadness: Why should we believe this money will get to Lagos?
Didn't Johnathan earlier release N1.9billion? Where is it?
Didn't dangote donate n150million? where is it?

Please help do the investigation and let's know if it gets to them or not.

dimples2:
hi joe

Hey...