disloman:
I no blame when you can read but can't comprehend.Let mi help you.There was a road map plan in 2012 which jona's govt didn't have the political will to work on.If they have done what is suppose to be done.We won't be here with lassa fever.The minister wasn't blaming but just setting the truth straight.Hops you gat that.

disloman:
I no blame when you can read but can't comprehend.Let mi help you.There was a road map plan in 2012 which jona's govt didn't have the political will to work on.If they have done what is suppose to be done.We won't be here with lassa fever.The minister wasn't blaming but just setting the truth straight.Hops you gat that.

Patdedon:
Irresponsible people always push the blame

while saying that the current outbreak is a national embarrassment because although there were about 1723 cases in 2012, the percentage death rate of the current outbreak was higher.

SaffronSpice:
Those saying Jonathan contained Ebola keep surprising me.
How did he 'fight the disease to a standstill'?
And how can any1 compare the Ebola pandemic to these few cases of Lassa fever?(No slight intended)...
My point is: The international media had made the public aware of how deadly the virus is b4 Sawyer brought it into the country,hence,health officials were more prepeared to handle the outbreak,and not because Jonathan was that capable.
All we need is the same level of public sensitisation we had during the Ebola outbreak.

PS: Am not in support of blaming the last adminstration 4 dis recrudesence.

interoute:

GEJ did not blame previous governments for not putting measures in place to avert Ebola. He only blamed the root cause of the wide spread of Ebola in Nigeria because Sawyer knew he was sick and infected with the disease and also knew that his traveling to Nigeria will spread the disease yet he embarked on it.

oloriooko:
What a bunch of sorry azz blame laying incompetent people we have in this government.
Who did GEJ blame for outbreak of Ebola?

Please these clowns should get down to work

disloman:
I no blame when you can read but can't comprehend.Let mi help you.There was a road map plan in 2012 which jona's govt didn't have the political will to work on.If they have done what is suppose to be done.We won't be here with lassa fever.The minister wasn't blaming but just setting the truth straight.Hops you gat that.

1miccza:


Did you take time to read the rubbish you typed??So the international community came down to Nigeria to contain it's spread Okwa ya??

omooba969:


This is not about Jonathan as a person, it is about the failings of his administration but your sentiment prevents you from getting the best from your thought process.

Please try & open up your mind to good reasoning because the lassa case is the ripple effect of the failings of responsible agencies under GEJ administration.

Have a good day.

anigold:


Thank God ebola did not occur in buhari"s administration millions could have lost their lifes while lai Mohammed and co will be busy blaming Azikiwe and Gowon...

naijaboy756:
you deserve a befitting insult... A very befitting one @ that... A confused person will always look for who to blame..Same Jonathan's government that received recommendation for halting the spread of ebola in Nigeria. Most humans ought not to have brains..an empty skull is just OK since they reason like that.

Orjioorji:
everybody can now see the incompetent of this ewedu eaters and their slave masters, anything they can't handle they will either blame Igbo's or GEJ as the cause of their failure.

SaffronSpice:
Those saying Jonathan contained Ebola keep surprising me.
How did he 'fight the disease to a standstill'?
And how can any1 compare the Ebola pandemic to these few cases of Lassa fever?(No slight intended)...
My point is: The international media had made the public aware of how deadly the virus is b4 Sawyer brought it into the country,hence,health officials were more prepeared to handle the outbreak,and not because Jonathan was that capable.
All we need is the same level of public sensitisation we had during the Ebola outbreak.

PS: Am not in support of blaming the last adminstration 4 dis recrudesence.

Tolexander:
This is not a "push the blame".

Just a "look into the past" how it could have prevented and help the present issue.

Tolexander:
This is not a "push the blame".

Just a "look into the past" how it could have prevented and help the present issue.

SaffronSpice:

WTF are you saying?
You should be grateful the outbreak did not start in Nigeria.

GodsMercy1:
Minister of Health Prof. Isaac Adewole on Thursday, said the current outbreak of Lassa fever in the country is because the administration of former president Goodluck Jonathan failed to implement a roadmap drawn in 2012.

The minister also disclosed that the ministry was going to begin testing on a potential vaccine that would be used to prevent the virus.

Adewole disclosed these while briefing the Senate Committee on Health headed by Sen. Lanre Tejuosho (APC, Lagos) on the outbreak of the lassa virus in Nigeria.

Prof. Adewole put the number of cases as of today was 129 adding that the hospital which treated the deceased victim of the disease before referral to the national hospital was being investigated.

The minister said that the virus would have been defeated by now if there was the Jonathan administration had the political will to implement a roadmap designed in 2012 to forestall future occurrence.

He said: “In 2012 we recorded 1723 cases, after that, because of the severity, the post lassa fever outbreak workshop took place and an action plan to ensure this will never happen again was put in place.

“But this action plan was never implemented because it was never funded. We will dust the old plan, modernize it and look at if from the political perspective: what can we do to provide leadership, to provide support.”

On the vaccine being developed to tackle the disease, the minister said government has been “notified of a candidate vaccine which we will put through chemical trial to find out if it would work.

“We call it a candidate vaccine and we would want to run it through trials and that takes some time. Hopefully we will do that this year, once we consider it to be effective and safe then we put it to use.

“If it works then that means that we would be able to immunize people in the affected areas but for now we will continue with our surveillance,” he said.

He revealed that the vaccine was co-developed by some Nigerians while saying that the current outbreak is a national embarrassment because although there were about 1723 cases in 2012, the percentage death rate of the current outbreak was higher.

He added that the virus had been a yearly occurrence with 400 cases recorded in 2014 although not as publicized as the current outbreak.

“We can assure you that we are not going to sleep, we will remain at work, we are actively moving across the country,” he assured the committee.

On the recent death of a victim at the National Hospital in Abuja, he said that the ministry was investigating the hospital where the victim was first treated for one week.

He said that the Abuja victim actually came from Plateau state because he was ill and landed in a private hospital where he was kept for one week before he was referred.

He said that the dead victim was only referred to the National Hospital when he was already unconscious and therefore died 24 hours later.

“It is unfortunate because if we had picked this man earlier on, we would have been able to put him on medication and he could have been alive today.

“The situation which happened in that private hospital I have asked our people to investigate. We will sanction the doctor or the proprietor if we find any act on negligence on his or her part,” he said.

In his remark, the Chairman of the Committee said that the Senate will be willing to approve money for the health of Nigerians not just for lassa but for other ailments.

http://www.orderpaper.ng/lassa-fever-minister-blames-jonathan-says-vaccine-tested/

1miccza:


Did you take time to read the rubbish you typed??So the international community came down to Nigeria to contain it's spread Okwa ya??