Nigerian Youths Volunteers in their Numbers To Help Fight Ebola OutBreak

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Despite the scary na­ture of the Ebola out­break in the country, a lot of Nigerians are volunteering to help contain the spread of the disease in the country.<b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></b></span></div> <div class="slider frame flexslider col-8" data-animation-speed="600" data-animation="fade" data-slide-delay="5000" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; opacity: 1; padding: 0px 25px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 682px; zoom: 1;"> <ul class="slides" style="border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-height: 170px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 10; zoom: 1;"> <li class="flex-active-slide" style="-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden; 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margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sunday Sun </i>visited the Ebola Emergency Operations Centre located within the Fed­eral Neuro-Psychiatric Hospi­tal, Yaba, Lagos, there was a large turn-out of volunteers.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Our reporters observed that as the volunteers poured in, they were attended to every 30 minutes to one hour. During this time, they were usually in groups of five to 10 people.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">At such intervals, a mid­dle-aged female official would come out and chat with the volunteers, while also asking questions to test their knowl­edge and preparedness for the task.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">At one of the sessions, the official turned to one of the volunteers, a man in his 40s, and asked him the question he was not prepared for. “Have you told your wife?” and he mumbled something to her.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Then the woman added, “It is just because we don’t want a situation where when you go home now, your family will start running away from you. And when other people hear it, they will also begin to run from you. So, you have to carry your family along,” she explained.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">After the conversation, she would then hand them a one-page form to fill. In most cases, the volunteers dis­persed after that exercise. But in some instances, you could still see some of them hanging around after filling their forms.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">An official of the centre who asked not to be named, told <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sunday Sun </i>that the response from the people was heart­warming, stating that it was a show of the African spirit of being one’s brother’s keeper.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The source assured the re­porters that they were getting the right kind of volunteers, saying that there were no stringent conditions for ac­cepting volunteers, except that they had to be willing and able to work.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In some cases, the officials had to advise a volunteer to take on a different task other than the one he or she applied for, depending on where they adjudged the volunteer’s skills could be better utilised.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Some of the volunteers, the source said would work at the clinical section (among this group were mainly doctors and nurses), while some others would work at social mobilization (to educate people about Ebola). Yet some others, he said, would engage in contact tracing and screen­ing at points of entry.</span></div> <div> <br /></div> </div>

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