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Qatar has stopped issuing entry visas to travelers coming from countries affected by the deadly virus Ebola, an official from the Supreme Council of Health (SCH) confirmed.

The ban will remain in place until the health situation improves as part of a “protective strategy” employed by the SCH and the Ministry of Interior (MOI) to prevent the spread of Ebola to Qatar, the Gulf Times reports.

The director of the SCH’s public health department, Sheikh Dr Mohamed bin Hamad al-Thani, is reported to have made the statement during a workshop on “preparations for epidemics and and health conditions for Hajj.”

The ban will affect visitors to Qatar from countries including Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone, which have all had confirmed cases of Ebola.

According to the most recent update from the World Health Organization (WHO), as of Aug. 26, a total of 3,069 cases of Ebola have been officially recorded. There have been 1,552 deaths as a result of the virus.

While the virus has primarily struck Guinea, Liberia and Sierre Leone, Nigeria has had 17 associated cases, including 13 confirmed, of Ebola and a total of six deaths  related to the virus.

Meanwhile, WHO officials say the first case of Ebola in Senegal has been confirmed.

International arrivals

The Ebola virus has non-specific symptoms and an incubation period of between two and 21 days.

As such, WHO recommends against imposing travel restrictions or screening arriving passengers with thermal imaging scanners to detect those who might have a fever, saying such measures are costly and ineffective.

However, passengers arriving recently into Hamad International Airport (HIA) have reported seeing cameras set up, just before passport control.

Dr. Mohamed al-Hajri, director of health protection and communicable diseases control in the SCH’s public health department, confirmed that thermal cameras were being used at HIA to detect and control the spread of viruses such as Ebola, the Gulf Times reports.

Al-Thani added that to date, no cases of Ebola had been detected at HIA.

Nigerian visitors

It appears that the new visa ban is particularly affecting first-time visitors to Qatar arriving on tourist visas.

Several Nigerians who hold Qatar residency permits told Doha News they had recently re-entered the country, following a summer break, without problems.
However, Doha News has learned of at least one case in which a Nigerian woman and her two young children were denied entry to Qatar on Friday morning.

While no official reason was given for her refused entry, her family suspects it was due to fears over Ebola. Doha News was unable to verify the suspicions.

The woman was travelling to Qatar for the first time on a visit visa to meet her husband, who has been working here for a year.

On arrival in Qatar, the women and children were told by an immigration official they could not enter the country, and were taken by a security officer to departures.

They boarded a flight back to Nigeria later that night.

Speaking to Doha News, the family member – who asked not to be named – said:

“She feels really bad about what has happened. She is very disappointed and so is her husband.

“Everyone in Nigeria is very surprised about what happened. It’s the first time we have heard about someone being sent back.”

The Nigerian Ambassador to Qatar, Shuaibu Adamu Ahmed, told Doha News that the embassy was aware of the reported case and it was investigating the issue.

He said that Nigerians had been allowed into Qatar last week. However, he added that the embassy would be monitoring future flights from Nigeria to assess the situation.

A Qatar Airways flight from Lagos is due to land at HIA at 11:45pm tonight.

In a statement published on its website, Qatar Airways says it is “monitoring the situation (regarding Ebola) very closely.”

It adds: “(We) are in contact with both local and international health and aviation organisations to ensure that all necessary and appropriate measures are in place to protect our passengers, our staff and the general public.”

It advises passengers to avoid non-essential travel to Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.

Qatar’s tightening of restrictions follows the death earlier this month of a Nigerian woman, suspected to have had Ebola, who flew to Abu Dhabi on an Etihad flight.

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The Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, an association of all medical doctors in Nigeria on July 1 embarked on a nationwide strike.
With the NMA strike, doctors working in government-owned hospitals have boycotted work, leaving majority of sick Nigerians stranded.
In an open letter to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Pius Anyim, on June 11, the association listed a 24 ‘minimum point’ demand which it expected government to meet before its members would return to work.
The letter was titled “Facing the Challenges in the Health Sector”.
However on Thursday, President Goodluck Jonathan ordered the sack of all resident doctors in Nigeria.
Mr. Jonathan directed the suspension of all Residency Training Programme and the hiring of part-time medical officers to replace the doctors.
The inadequate funding of the Residency Training Programme is one of the reasons the NMA is aggrieved.
Below is a list of the challenges faced by the NMA:
1.  A demand that seven Deputy Chairman Medical Advisory Committee, DCMAC (four for Teaching Hospitals and three for Federal Medical Centers be appointed to assist the Chairman Medical Advisory Committee, CMAC. The association noted that the CMAC is presently saddled with statutory responsibilities that are too heavy for an individual to handle. The DCMACs is expected to have the same qualifications as the CMACs.
The NMA also argued that directors in other government establishments are supported by deputies and sees no reason while that of the CMACs should be different.
2. The association opposed the appointment of directors in hospitals. The position, it said, distorts the chain of command and induces anarchy while exposing patients to conflicting treatment and management directives with mostly negative consequences.
3. A demand that grade level 12 (CONMESS 2) in the health sector be skipped for medical and dental practitioners.
4. The association also demand that the title ‘Consultant’ should not be assigned to non-doctor personnel. Arguing that consultant describes the relationship between a specialist medical doctor and his patients, the association said that giving the title to a non-doctor personnel will only lead to anarchy and chaos in the system.
5. The immediate implementation of a January 3, 2014 circular and immediate payment of the arrears for 22 years during which members were short-changed. It also demand an adjustment of doctor’s salary to maintain the relativity as agreed.
6. The acceleration of the passage of the National Health Bill and extension of the Universal Health Coverage to cover 100 per cent of Nigerians rather than 30 per cent as currently prescribed by the National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS.
7. Appointment of a Surgeon General of the Federation with immediate effect.
8. A correction of entry point of a health officer to CONMESS 1 Step 4 as originally contained in MSS/ MSSS while the Registrar/ Medical officer is moved to CONMESS 3 Step 3.
9. Call duty allowance for Honorary Consultants should be increased by 90 per cent.
10. An adjustment in the specialist allowance as contained in the 2009 collective bargaining agreement. Also all doctors on CONMESS 3 and above must be paid specialist allowance or its equivalent, not less than 50 per cent higher than what is paid to other health workers.
11. Hazard allowance for medical doctors must be at least N100, 000 per month. The hazard allowance for medical doctors is said to be at N5, 000 per month presently.
12. Immediate release of the circular on rural posting, teaching and other allowances which must include house officers.
13. An immediate withdrawal of a circular by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN authorizing Medical Laboratory Science Council of Nigeria, MLSCN to approve licenses for importation of In-Vitro Diagnostics, IVDs.
14. Immediate release of the circular for the retirement age for medical doctors as agreed with the Federal Government.
15. The FG through the health ministry should formalize and implement the report of the interagency committee on residency training. The FG is expected to release the uniform template on the appointment of resident doctors in line with earlier agreements. Also a concrete funding framework for residency training must be established while the overseas clinical attachment must be fully restored and properly funded in the interest of the nation.
16. That in the interest of harmony in the Federal Medical Centre, Owerri, the government should pay the salaries of our members in the center as agreed on October 21, 2013.
17. Immediate concrete steps must be put in place for the reintegration of our members back into the IPPIS platform.
18. All attempts to coerce house officers not to join NARD must stop.
19. The orchestrated intimidation, harassment and physical assault of our members in the departments of pathology (Laboratory medicine) by laboratory scientists and tolerated by the Federal Ministry of Health must stop.
20. The endless circle of incomplete salary payment of our members in many hospitals in the name of shortfalls in personnel cost must stop.
21. Universal applicability of all establishment circulars on the renumeration and conditions of service for doctors at all levels of government must be granted.
22. Government should as a matter of urgency set up a health trust fund that will enhance the upgrading of hospitals in Nigeria.
23. The position of the Chief Medical Director/ Medical Director must continue to be occupied by a medical doctor as contained in the Act establishing the tertiary hospitals. This position remains sacrosanct and untouchable.
24. The NMA henceforth shall not accept the continued violation of any of any of the terms of the 2009 Collective Bargaining Agreement. This is exemplified by the payment of the Medical Physicist and Optometrist with OD (who are on CONHESS) call duty allowance using CONMESS circular. Similarly, the phrase, “Ministries, Departments and Agencies”, MDAs in the said agreement should replace “Federal Ministry of Health and other Federal Health Institutions” as contained in the 2009 CONMESS circular.

Source: Premium Times.

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