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Onegai: Can you assure us that is the case in Nigeria? Are you in contact with anyone at the hospital in Yaba, who can assure us that yes, 7 infected individuals are isolated separately, not sharing the same toilet or the toilet being disinfected after each use, that they are being taken care of? Please confirm that, then these innocent people will be handed over to the appropriate authorities.

I cannot access the mail you sent.

APC lost yesterday

OP thank you so very much for this.

It is important to tell every side of the story especially that of hope.

If you are a possible contact or know any contact, you should encourage the person to come forward and get tested.
Not only could you save your life, you will also save those of your loved ones.

Most patients who have survived are those who reported early for treatment.

Onegai: Can you assure us that is the case in Nigeria? Are you in contact with anyone at the hospital in Yaba, who can assure us that yes, 7 infected individuals are isolated separately, not sharing the same toilet or the toilet being disinfected after each use, that they are being taken care of? Please confirm that, then these innocent people will be handed over to the appropriate authorities.

Yes.
I can
My post refers to Nigeria.

dotman19: If Ogbeni Aregbesola wants to convince me to
support him,
he should be ready to give solid and
genuine
answers to these questions:
1. What is the reason behind renaming
Osun State
to State of Osun?
2. Who were the people consulted before
a new flag
and anthem was imposed on us?
3. How much was spent on Opon Imo?
How many
students received it? What implication is
it having
on the students?
4. How has O'Reap helped us in Osun?
Are the
prices of agricultural products cheap in
Osun
Markets?
5. How early do workers receive their
salaries? If
early, why are teachers owed money
most of the
time?
6. Is the Osogbo Airport working yet?
How many
flights have taken off or landed there?
7. How many percent of Osun roads are
now
accessible?
8. Why do you keep giving excuse that
federal
allocation is small when you already
boasted you
dont need it?
9. Did you really give 20,000 youths
employment?
How many of them are still working
under your
administration?
10. The youths you sent abroad, can you
boast of
how succesful they have become?
11. How efficient is O'Clean? Has it made
Osun
Cleaner?
12. Can you explain your source of
revenue? Are you
having a budget deficit or a budget
surplus?
13. You claim school uniforms are free.
Why are
students buying them?
14. The helicopter you bought, what did
you buy it
for? Your own personal use or for
security purpose?
15. As the Osun State 'Chief Security
Officer,' why
you angry that more Security Personel
have joined
the force in Osun?
16. I heard you promised that Julius
Berger will
handle the projects in Osun. How many
projects
have they handled?
17. Is your son a dropout? If yes, why did
you give
him the over 70 billion opon imo
contract and left
graduates to cutting of bush under opon
imo?
18. How will merging of schools improve
our
performance in SSCE?
19. Are you a true son of Osun State?
20. Have you caused more harm than
good?
Let me stop here

I wish to add mine.

Why would you stand on top of a moving molue, while you look down with contempt on the brainwashed people living in squalor?

19naia: Everybody knows it has no cure and the disease cannot be treated.. They will just be isolated until they die and being in Nigeria, its normal to fear for your life when people come looking foryou because they fear you spread death on contact..
Also Nigerians don't like to face bad news, they say a prayer and tell themselves only what they want to believe even when the bitter truth is sitting on their face.. So they may also be running from the diagnosis for fear it will be bad news.. In Guinea, there are villages running from health care workers and forbidding the health workers from entering their village because they believe the health workers brought the disease from the very beginning..
[s] If they run for over a week with no symptoms, then they are justified because nigerian quarantine authorities would do something stupid like quarantine all ebola suspects in the same facility to share same toilet and bath and everything.. That will keep the outside society safer, but it will allow the one suspect who was the only one with Ebola, to infect the rest of the non infected suspects in quarantine.. after this, the officials in charge of quarantine can just tell the world that the ebola suspects were all infected and congratulate themselves for saving the public.. N[/s]ever underestimate the incompetence or simple unwillingness of Nigerian authorities to not blunder even the best of intentions and as a result, cost innocent people their lives..
If they have the well being and strength to run, then thats a good sign of good health, they best protect themselves from the mental illness of the delusional do-gooder authorities trying to save them or society as a whole...

Please stop speculating rubbish.
There running is NOT justified by your factless epistle.

Confirmed and unconfirmed cases are ALWAYS separated and each unconfirmed case is treated individually.

It is a very basic rule in public health and the cases are being managed by public health consultants in conjuction with the WHO and CDC.

Why do people like making irritating speculations that bias the public.
And people are already happy with your funny ideas.

PresidentAde: Hi friend ..........Doctors are on strike :..Yes.......But not really in Lagos state,,,,,,,,Walk into any Primary health care centre in Lagos state today & a Doctor will attend to You !

Yes we were talking about an incident in Owerri.
Thanks.

Vincenzi: Sorry to say this,the person who told me is a doctor. Met him in a restaurant when we had this discussion in Owerri. I'm not saying second hand stories. Doctors are on strike but some of them are still seen in the hospital premises . The truth is that doctors ran away. Stop blaming health care workers,even though they also avoided the patients too.

Lol!

It does not matter who told you, doctors are not even at work so how could they have run away.?

Vincenzi: @ Ashantiking,please say what you know. Is the doctor dead yet?

@ Topic,i got some iformation yesterday that the children were taken to[b] FMC Owerri but the doctors all ran away. [/b]Some stakeholders should pls confirm if it is true. I heard this from a doctor working at FMC Owerri. God help us.

Doctors are on strike.

If at all anyone ran away it is definitely not doctors but allied workers.

This is what you get when some unqualified group of healthcare workers want to become consultants and CMDs, they run away from their patients.

InvertedHammer: /


Almighty consultants don see the one dem no fit CONSULT.

They think say Ebola na JOHESU?

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You are silly.

Are doctors not on strike?

So is not JOHESU that ran away?

Aggrippa: okay I concur with your view... however I have a feeling that the treatment (management), screening, quarantine and isolation is not aggressive neither is it meticulous enough! what is your assurance that the medics are doing a 110% job?

Thanks

I also agree that more needs to be done on enlightening the public.

Ashantiking: He said they shouldn't keep ebola victims in the same room even if they have the virus. Every case should be isolated.

They are not kept in the same room with unconfirmed cases!

Aggrippa: mumu country, mumu minister?, mumu medics, mumu people how can you dump force everyone you suspect has Ebola into one small area for quarantine without giving them proper care? and not expect the disease to spread?
solution: each case or suspect case should be singly isolated or quarantined in specified individual locations and also cautiously treated with great care!

Your post is not true!

If you are not a healthcare professional on ground please stop spreading speculations.

Confirmed cases and unconfirmed cases are separated.

Once the test results are negative then you need not be held.

Ashantiking: I don't want to derail this thread because I believe this is a serious case, so count your blessing. I will let this slide

I do not care how you feel.
Just yesterday people started unfounded rumours on salt therapy and now people are dead and some critically ill.

Now you want to champion an even more dangerous rumour and you expect me to applaud you.

Vincenzi: I repeat,say what you know. If u are ignorant of facts,just keep quiet rather than assume!
I have first hand info that the nurse only made people aware of her situation when it had gone really bad. The case of Patrick Sawyer,he kept denying every contact with ebola. His sister died three weeks before. He was already coughing blood when he came to Nigeria,which means the disease had progressed fast.
With people having this kind of poor mentality,i really doubt the quick control of this situation.
The female medical doctor is stable because she was smart enough o alert the medical officials on time.
Early detection is the best.
I am sure you had your bath with salt water yesterday?

Please leave that ignoramus.

I have tried to educate him but he is adamant on his crude beliefs.

Ashantiking: Did I ever say I was a big a nigerian. I already have my reasons for saying what I said if don't like it, don't quote me. I will continue to say what I have to say. Is people like you that allow the government to take u for a ride.


Even if they are not deliberately killing them, I believe they are not giving them the necessary care.

Then move your gaynian butt off this forum and stop spreading lies here

Ashantiking: Okay if it is the wrong info, inform them to put the right up.

Regardless Whether it was a nurse or a doctor. A person died of the deadly disease or are you trying to say a doctor's life is more valuable than a nurse's.

Please shut it you are shifting grounds.

I simply told you to stop wrongly accusing the government of deliberately "killing" Ebola patients.


Spreading such unfounded rumours will lead to people refusing treatment.

This is what happened with the salt therapy and now it has already killed more Nigerians than Ebola.

Your moniker shows you are not even Nigerian so why come here and spread your stupid superstitions.

Ashantiking: First of all I am not talking about Nigeria. Why should I be arrested for speaking my mind.

According to the news he is dead.

https://www.nairaland.com/1845228/nigerian-female-doctor-dies-ebola

You are misinformed, just like the thousands that read that thread.

That is why I keep pleading with mods to edit wrong headings.

It is the nurse that died the doctor is still very much alive.


You seem to be artful in misinforming the public.

Ashantiking: First of all I am not talking about Nigeria. Why should I be arrested for speaking my mind.

According to the news he is dead.

https://www.nairaland.com/1845228/nigerian-female-doctor-dies-ebola

Is Nigeria not in Africa?
Besides it is false irrespective.

Ashantiking: They are running because everyone with sense knows that african government are killing people with suspected ebola. Majority ilof the dead didn't die if ebola, it is the government that is killing them.

You are an ignorant dolt!!!
The Nigerian doctor that was diagnosed first is still alive.

Why would spread such lies!

These are the myths that destroy our health sector.

These are the kind of myths that has made people turn down vaccination and made polio still not eradicated.

You should be traced and arrested for spreading such.

12inches1: Very irresponsible statement. Do you know that in Liberia with early treatment over 60 percent of people survive the virus? This drops to the 90th percentile when the treatment is late. This reason contributed to the nurses death. So I heard. Now she put not only herself at greater risk but also the lives of her husband and children. Assuming she turned herself for treatment and didn't run, she will probably still be alive now. This is the message we should be spreading. Ebola is not a death sentence with early treatment. People survive it and thereafter becoming forever immune to it. I think her husband and children names and pictures should be released as WANTED with strict consequences for harbouring them.

You will remain blessed.

A message of hope will prevent scenarios like this.

Valto: @ ngwere ekwensu, your hatred for GEJ/PDP will surely consume u one day. U are so evil. Tufiakwa gi!!! Nothing is ever good for your eye so far its GEJ. U seriously need help!

Beautiful vegetation around the centre, hope it is maintained.

As a side note.


Can't we get proper barriers for military check points in this country?

I hate it when pieces of wood, rusty drums, tyres etc are dragged unto the road in the name of barrier.

Just look at that ugly piece of wood on that road.

OP is a crappy bungalow and white tarpaulins supposed to make me leap for joy?

ibedun: After commanding EBOLA Jonathan to declare that his father land is a disease ravaged land.

4 possible victims and EBOLA JONATHAN was arm twisted to declare his people are scums of earth by his declaration of the state of emergency.

The guy is not competent to run anything

People like you are the reason the country is still backwards.

Are you waiting for 1000 people to die before he declares state if emergency on Ebola?

Or you must find something silly to say about your president.

I am happy the moderators eventually pulled down the threads that were promoting salt water intake even though it took them a very long time to do so.
Moderators have a duty to pull down such threads that disseminate false and very dangerous information, and their response despite several reports is often too slow.

DRealGeesam1: So i should have just kept quiet abi.
Who knew people will take it this serious.
Nairaland has too many kids. Mind how you talk to me pls!

You have the silly guts to call names.
You should just drop your apology and log off.

8. What about health workers? How should they protect themselves while caring for patients?

Health workers treating patients with suspected or confirmed illness are at higher risk of infection than other groups. During an outbreak a number of important actions will reduce or stop the spread of the virus and protect health workers and others in the health-care setting. These actions are called “standard and other additional precautions” and are evidence-based recommendations known to prevent the spread of infections. The following questions and answers describe the precautions in detail.

Should patients with suspected or confirmed Ebola virus be separated from other patients?
Isolating patients with suspected or confirmed Ebola virus disease in single isolation rooms is recommended. Where isolation rooms are not available, it is important to assign designated areas, separate from other patients, for suspected and confirmed cases. In these designated areas, suspect and confirmed cases should also be separate. Access to these areas should be restricted, needed equipment should be dedicated strictly to suspected and confirmed EVD treatment areas, and clinical and non-clinical personnel should be exclusively assigned to isolation rooms and dedicated areas.

Are visitors allowed in areas where patients suspected or confirmed Ebola virus disease are admitted?
Stopping visitor access to patients infected with EVD is preferred. If this is not possible, access should be given only to those individuals who are necessary for the patient’s well-being and care, such as a child’s parent.

Is protective equipment required when caring for these patients?
In addition to standard health-care precautions, health-care workers should strictly apply recommended infection control measures to avoid exposure to infected blood, fluids, or contaminated environments or objects – such as a patient’s soiled linen or used needles.
All visitors and health-care workers should rigorously use what is known as personal protective equipment (PPE). PPE should include at least: gloves, an impermeable gown, boots/closed shoes with overshoes, a mask, and eye protection for splashes (goggles or face shields).
[b]Is hand hygiene important?
[/b]Hand hygiene is essential and should be performed:

before donning gloves and wearing PPE on entry to the isolation room/area;
before any clean or aseptic procedures is being performed on a patient;
after any exposure risk or actual exposure with a patient’s blood or body fluids;
after touching (even potentially) contaminated surfaces, items, or equipment in the patient’s surroundings; and
after removal of PPE, upon leaving the isolation area
It is important to note that neglecting to perform hand hygiene after removing PPE will reduce or negate any benefits of the PPE.

Either an alcohol-based hand rub or soap and running water can be used for hand hygiene, applying the correct technique recommended by WHO. It is important to always perform hand hygiene with soap and running water when hands are visibly soiled. Alcohol-based hand rubs should be made available at every point of care (at the entrance and within the isolation rooms and areas); running water, soap, and single use towels should also be always available.

12. Is it safe to travel during an outbreak? What is WHO’s travel advice?

During an outbreak, WHO reviews the public health situation regularly, and recommends any travel or trade restrictions if necessary.

The risk of infection for travelers is very low since person-to-person transmission results from direct contact with the body fluids or secretions of an infected patient.

Is it safe to travel with persons who have Ebola?
As with any illness or disease, it is always possible that a person who has been exposed to Ebola virus may choose to travel. If the individual has not developed symptoms (see FAQ #4), they cannot transmit EVD to those around them. If the individual does have symptoms, they should seek immediate medical attention at the first sign they are feeling unwell. This may require either notifying the flight crew or ship crew or, upon arrival at a destination, seeking immediate medical attention. Travellers who show initial symptoms of EVD should be isolated to prevent further transmission. Although the risk to fellow travellers in such a situation is very low, contact tracing is recommended under these circumstances.

Is it safe to travel to West Africa on business or to visit family and friends?
The risk of a tourist or businessman/woman becoming infected with Ebola virus during a visit to the affected areas and developing disease after returning is extremely low, even if the visit included travel to the local areas from which primary cases have been reported. Transmission requires direct contact with blood, secretions, organs or other body fluids of infected living or dead persons or animal, all of which are unlikely exposures for the average traveller. In any event, tourists are advised to avoid all such contacts.

If you are visiting family or friends in the affected areas, the risk is similarly low, unless you have direct physical contact with a person who is ill or who has died. If this is the case, it is important to notify public health authorities and engage in contact tracing. Contact tracing is used to confirm you have not been exposed to EVD and to prevent further spread of the disease through monitoring.

WHO’s general travel advice

Travelers should avoid all contact with infected patients.
Health workers traveling to affected areas should strictly follow WHO-recommended infection control guidance.
Anyone who has stayed in areas where cases were recently reported should be aware of the symptoms of infection and seek medical attention at the first sign of illness.
Clinicians caring for travelers returning from affected areas with compatible symptoms are advised to consider the possibility of Ebola virus disease.
For additional travel advise, please read the Travel and transport risk assessment: Recommendations for public health authorities and transport sector at http://who.int/ith/updates/20140421/en/.

9. What about rumours that some foods can prevent or treat the infection?

WHO strongly recommends that people seek credible health advice about Ebola virus disease from their public health authority.

While there is no specific drug against Ebola, the best treatment is intensive supportive treatment provided in the hospital by health workers using strict infection control procedures. The infection can be controlled through recommended protective measures.