591 Nigerians to fight Ebola in Liberia,

No fewer than 591 Nigerian have registered to join the Ebola
volunteers group for deployment in hard-hit Liberia, Sierra
Leone and Guinea.
Minister of Health Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, stated this
yesterday while giving updates on global Ebola Virus Disease.
Prof. Chukwu, said there are six countries now having active
cases of Ebola - Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Democratic
Republic of Congo, United States and Spain.
Explaining that Nigeria has no active case of Ebola, he said:
“Nigeria has had 19 cases with seven deaths, it is not 20
cases as being reported by foreign media. There is no single
case of active Ebola Virus disease in Nigeria; no single contact
that is at presentl under surveillance in any part of the
country.”
He said the ban on repatriation of bodies as well as inter-
state transportation of bodies are still in force.
He said: “That ban remains except where approval had been
granted by the Minister of Health.
“The established precautional protocols at mass gatherings
will continue and the people who had been organizing mass
gatherings do contact us and we do work with them, they
provide the sanitisers at the venue and we provide the
personnel who teach them, assist them to carry out their
temperature checks. That should continue.” He added
“As part of Nigeria’s contributions to the international team
that will be set up to tackle Ebola Virus disease in those
countries, already Nigeria volunteers from different heath
professions have been registering with us, willing to join the
international force that will go to Liberia, Sierra Leone and
Guinea to help out with the containment and as of now 591
Nigerians have already registered with us in three registers we
opened in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt.”
“Before we allow them to leave, certain conditions must be
met, the President has to approve for them to leave Nigeria for
them to leave as volunteers.”
“Secondly, they have to be given proper training on how they
would avoid the disease and ensure that they don’t get it.
They have to be fully and properly trained according to our
standards in Nigeria which is fairly high.” He said
He also said the on-going training and re-training of health
personnel being conducted by Federal Ministry of Health will
be sustained while the laboratory capacity for the diagnosis of
Ebola Virus diseases will continue to be expanded.
“We are awaiting the arrival of three mobile laboratories that
Federal ministry of Heath ordered as part of the measures to
contain the virus and they will be used in other parts of the
country while currently we are working on getting installed
capacity in three centres to begin to diagnose Ebola Virus
disease, we have installed capacity at University of Port
Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Lagos University, Teaching
Hospital Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano and University
of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu. We will continue to
upgrade, we will not relent.” He said

source: thenationonlineng.net/new/591-nigerians-to-fight-ebola-in-liberia-sierra-leone/

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Brave peeps. 'one small step for Nigeria, a giant leap for Africa.

Good move but please be careful. As stated above, they must be properly trained to render help in such a way as not to endanger their own lives

NIGERIA..GOOD PEOPLE..GREAT NATION..bad rulers in the guised of leaders.

eleojo23:
Good move but please be careful.

yes. safety is paramount.

no take away please.

My goodness I'm so proud of Nigeria, I keep getting good news these days. I just pray that the 591 volunteers will be accounted for and return to Nigeria in one piece, good job guys YIPPEE YAYYY!!

God bless Nigeria

xcelsia:
My goodness I'm so proud of Nigeria, I keep getting good news these days. I just pray that the 591 volunteers will be accounted for and return to Nigeria in one piece, good job guys YIPPEE YAYYY!!

God bless Nigeria

God bless mother land

xcelsia:
My goodness I'm so proud of Nigeria, I keep getting good news these days. I just pray that the 591 volunteers will be accounted for and return to Nigeria in one piece, good job guys YIPPEE YAYYY!!

God bless Nigeria

God bless mother land