Nigeria’s Consul-General in
Johannesburg, Ambassador
Uche Ajulu-Okeke, has
warned Nigerians back home
to be cautious while handling
bodies of their loved ones brought in from South Africa.
Ajulu-Okeke gave the charge
following the increasing
number of deaths from
Tuberculosis and HIV related
diseases in South Africa. She gave the warning while
speaking to a body of
Nigerian professionals who
were in her office on a visit.

She said that her worry is
stemmed from the fact that
the Nigerians are predisposed
to touching the bodies of their
loved ones during the funeral rites.

“I am telling the Federal
government, any Nigerian
that dies here, bury him
because all of them are
coming home with TB and
HIV and our people do not have the capacity to deal
with it”she said

Also speaking, the Secretary-
General of the Nigerian Medical
Forum in South Africa, Dr. Emaka Ugwu Said

“I am in the know that in
South Africa one of the
leading causes of death is
tuberculosis and HIV/Aids.
So it will not be far-fetched
to deduce from this that some Nigerians who are
dying here may also have
that statistics. Care needs
to be taken from the health
perspective, any dead
body or any of such things could have serious health
implication on the
community and it could be
transferred from one
person to the other. If a
dead body moves from here to Nigeria, it needs to
be properly handled
according to stipulated
World Health Organisation
objectives.”he said


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