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HealthRe: Ebola And Fraud: The Nanosilver LIES By Dr. Rima E. Laibow by willyzmart(m): 11:42pm On Aug 20, 2014
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PoliticsRe: Photos: U.S Donates High Tech Bomb Disposal Robots/equipment To Nigerian Police by willyzmart(m): 10:57pm On Aug 20, 2014
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PoliticsRe: Tambuwal’s Comment Unsettles Presidency by willyzmart(m): 10:56pm On Aug 20, 2014
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Christianity EtcRe: Pope Francis: I Only Have Two Or Three More Years To Live by willyzmart(m): 10:41pm On Aug 20, 2014
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PoliticsRe: Gaddaffi Was The Most Benevolent Leader Africa Ever Had: His Last Formal Speech by willyzmart(m): 10:38pm On Aug 20, 2014
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HealthRe: No New Confirmed Ebola Case - Health Minister by willyzmart(m): 10:28pm On Aug 20, 2014
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SportsRe: Manchester United Confirm Signing Of Rojo by willyzmart(m): 10:27pm On Aug 20, 2014
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PoliticsRe: $20bn Unremitted Funds: PwC Concludes NNPC Audit This Month by willyzmart(m): 3:02pm On Aug 20, 2014
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PoliticsRe: Bauchi State Govt Takes N15billion Loan To Build Homes For Yuguda, Mu’azu by willyzmart(m): 11:36pm On Aug 19, 2014
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Largas: Nigeria is a joke
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CelebritiesRe: What’s Chiwetalu Agu Doing With Two Actresses Boobs HERE?!? by willyzmart(m): 11:30pm On Aug 19, 2014
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RomanceRe: See Marriage Application Form by willyzmart(m): 3:47pm On Aug 19, 2014
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PoliticsEbola Uniting Nigeria by willyzmart(op):
If Nigerian can de discharging its Ebola patience and getting US commendation.
for the Nigeria government to irrespective of party bruhaha,for both apc and pdp came togeda, to figure out a way to fight Ebola.
I honestky tink the FG can also unitedly end the insurgency in the county, tackle unemployment, resolve dispute by both ASUU, nma, nlc and oda pressure group.
If the can achieve dis united who knws wat more we can achieve togeda

In the midst of the gloomy news that Nigeria is often associated with comes a ray of hope that the country can indeed get things right when its officials and people put their hearts to work.

This is the story emerging from the handling of Ebola outbreak in West Africa, where Nigeria’s officials have been able to contain its spread in Africa’s most populous country with over 168 million people.

This response has received huge commendations from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the international community.

Following fear and anxiety the lethality of the Ebola outbreak has generated since it came into the country through late Patrick Sawyer, a Liberian-American, on July 20, 2014, Nigeria is racing to halt Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) from spreading, including tracing individuals known to have had contact with confirmed cases, training health care professionals to identify EVD, and raising public awareness of symptoms.

This cheery news comes as contact tracing in Nigeria has resulted in a range of between 94 percent and 98 percent of contacts of EVD cases being identified and followed up, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).

With Nigeria recording 12 confirmed EVD cases, this development comes as a relief and provides a window to wipe out the disease before it gets out of control, as it has in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, claiming 1,066 lives, with 1,963 EVD cases confirmed since the outbreak began in December 2013.

Onyebuchi Chukwu, minister of health, had announced yesterday that four additional confirmed cases of EVD who had been managed successfully and were now disease-free had been discharged.

“The four persons include two male medical doctors and one female nurse. The three participated in the treatment of the index case, while the fourth person was a female patient at the time the index case was on admission,” a statement from the ministry said.

This brings to five the total number of patients diagnosed with EVD who have now been discharged from hospital.

On the Federal Government’s containment efforts, Chukwu told BusinessDay that state governments were urged to institute a communication strategy to ensure mass awareness creation and sensitisation for individuals and communities on EVD in a bid to halt the spread of the disease.

Federal and state ministries of health and the human services secretariat of the FCT administration were also directed to provide adequate incentives to health workers participating in the management of EVD patients, he said.

Chukwu said Nigeria’s partnership with WHO, UNICEF, the United States Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), local authorities and international partners in the area of technical capacity, health facilities for isolation of EVD patients and other containment efforts was aimed at halting EVD spread.

“The Ministry of Health is procuring isolation tents to quicken the pace of providing isolation wards in all states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory. We are also setting up a special team to provide counselling and psychosocial support to patients, identified contacts and their families,” Chukwu explained.

“189 persons are under surveillance in Lagos and six persons under surveillance in Enugu. All the persons under surveillance were secondary contacts. All the patients under treatment have now moved to the new 40-bed capacity isolating ward provided by the Lagos State government. Additional equipment has also been made available to the new isolating ward by the Federal Government,” he said.

Chika Mordi, CEO, National Competitiveness Council of Nigeria, said Nigeria has done creditably well in containing the spread of EVD in the country. While Nigeria is perceived in the international community not to have functional institutions, Mordi said the case management of EVD in Nigeria has proven that the nation has functional institutions.

He said “If you compare the way Nigeria have handled the case of EVD outbreak

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PoliticsRe: Armed Robbers Attack Saudi Prince's Motorcade In France by willyzmart(m): 10:27pm On Aug 18, 2014
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PoliticsRe: How El Rufai’s Son Reacted To Ribadu’s Defection From APC To PDP by willyzmart(m): 8:06pm On Aug 18, 2014
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