Air France, British Airways suspend flights to Sierra Leone, Liberia

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-649006678838088664" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 616px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: black; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 19px;">                    </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgljC_ViR9pGoWyYRcudr5vilenHxx-N5UPu7sjkt0xNYlvK7qMZ3FECdRM2x15xSnE3dTUfZMzK9h_DalzfktU_xMUejmfyWMvzMrIEqmyROsRtvkefoFX_kfB1zofJVTWlVz_rDEuJLMV/s1600/unnamed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgljC_ViR9pGoWyYRcudr5vilenHxx-N5UPu7sjkt0xNYlvK7qMZ3FECdRM2x15xSnE3dTUfZMzK9h_DalzfktU_xMUejmfyWMvzMrIEqmyROsRtvkefoFX_kfB1zofJVTWlVz_rDEuJLMV/s1600/unnamed.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 0, 0); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Air France has temporarily suspended all its flights to Sierra Leone due to the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa. In a statement released by management of Air France today August 27th, the French government recommended the national carrier to suspend all its flight to Sierra Leone.</span></div> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Given the way the epidemic has evolved and the condition of the health systems.....the public authorities recommend to Air France that it temporarily suspend its services to Freetown" the statement read in part</span></blockquote> <div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Meanwhile British Airways has also suspended all its flights to Liberia and Sierra Leone till 2015. </span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="" name="more"></a> </span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">British Airways had earlier suspended its flights to the countries till September 2014 but reviewed the situation and decided to extend its flights suspension to 2015.</span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Liberia has been worst hit since the Ebola outbreak in West Africa with 624 deaths recorded.</span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> </div> </div>

Air France, British Airways suspend flights to Sierra Leone, Liberia

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Ebola Now Contained- FG

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br /> <header class="post-header cf" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="featured" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/nigeria-ebola-1.jpg" itemprop="image" rel="prettyPhoto" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Ebola now contained – FG"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="nigeria-ebola-1" class="attachment-main-slider wp-post-image no-display appear" height="336" src="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/nigeria-ebola-1-702x336.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 0.8; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Ebola now contained – FG" width="702" /></span></a></div> <h1 class="post-title" itemprop="name" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 35px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ebola now contained – FG</span></span></h1> <a class="comments" href="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=78939#comments" style="border: 0px; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 0px -35px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="fa fa-comments-o" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"></span> 0</span></span></a><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; color: #606569; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> <br /></div> </header><br /> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">• 2 more primary contacts discharged from hospital</strong></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Thirty-eight  days after the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) recorded its first victim with the death of visiting Liberian/American Patrick Sawyer, the Federal Government announced yesterday it has contained EVD. The authorities said the last patient’s condition was stable.A statement signed by Mr Dan Nwomeh, Special Assistant to the Health Minister, said, “as of today, August 26, 2014, Nigeria has 13 cases of EVD including the index case.</span><br /> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Of these 13, five including the index case unfortunately did not survive the disease and are now late. However, seven of the infected persons were successfully managed at the isolation ward in Lagos and have been discharged.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Two of treated patients, a male doctor and a female nurse were discharged yesterday evening, August 25, 2014 having satisfied the criteria for discharge.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“As I speak to you, Nigeria has only one confirmed case of EVD, a secondary contact of Mr. Patrick Sawyer’s and spouse of one of the physicians who participated in the management of the index case. She is stable but still on treatment at the isolation ward in Lagos.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“So far, all the reported cases of the EVD in Nigeria have their root in the index case, the late Mr Sawyer. This is an indication that, thus far, Nigeria has contained the disease outbreak.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I wish to reassure Nigerians and indeed the global community that the government shall remain vigilant and will not relent as government continues to work with her partners to ensure that the disease is kept out of the country,” he said.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Last week, Dr. Stella Ameyo Adadavoh, who treated Mr Sawyer when he was brought to First Consultants Hospital, Lagos, died on account of her contact with him. The Federal Government praised the late Dr Adadevoh for her patriotism and laying her life to stop Sawyer from escaping from the hospital, which could result in possible epidemic in the country.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mr Nwomeh had on Monday said Nigeria recorded 13 confirmed cases including the index case. He said: “Total number of deaths due to EVD (including the index case) remains five.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Total number of EVD patients treated and discharged is five. Total number of EVD patients currently under treatment in the isolation ward is now three”, he noted.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As part of measures to control the transmission of the deadly virus, the Federal Government has banned movement of corpses from states. It urged members of the public to observe hygiene by washing their hands with running water and soap. On its part, the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) has advised transporters nation-wide against overloading their vehicles with passengers. It advised commuters to reduce body contacts by refusing to board overloaded vehicles.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">…Schools now to re-open October 13</strong></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> From IKENNA EMEWU, ABUJA Minister of Education, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau yesterday announced that resumption of schools nation-wide earlier scheduled for September has been postponed to October 13.</span><br /> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The decision was one of the measures the Federal Government has adopted to help contain the spread of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the country. The minister said in Abuja that all the schools, public and private, must remain closed until Monday, October 13.</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 a press briefing after a meeting with all the 36 state Commissioners for Education and FCT, the minister said the new date became imperative to allow the Federal Government take adequate preventive measures against the spread of the disease before pupils resume.</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 minister directed all state Education Ministries to immediately ensure that at least two staff in each school, both public and private, are trained by health workers on how to handle any suspected case of Ebola.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All schools, he said, must also embark on sensitization of all teaching and non-teaching staff on preventive measures and the training must be concluded not later than September 15.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Shekarau directed that each state Education Ministry should appoint a desk officer not later than September 1 who should also receive adequate training and must report daily to the Education Commissioner on the situation in the schools.</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 names of such Desk Officers, their phone numbers and e-mail addresses should be communicated to the headquarters of the Federal Ministry of Education not later than September 1,” he said.</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 minister who also disclosed that he would meet with the commissioners on September 23 to review the situation in all states, said that all tertiary institutions are advised to suspend exchange of staff and students programs, visits and major international seminars and workshops until the situation improves.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> </div> </div> <br /></div>

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Your Opinion is needed Here: Rate the Federal Government's Effort to Contain the Spread of Ebola

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Your opinion is needed on how the Nigeria government have been able to handle the spread of #EbolaOutbreak @renoomokri</span></span></h3> <div class="post-header" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"> <div class="post-header-line-1"> </div> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-786107886495448844" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 660px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRQ8x_djhq1Llj9nHNu89N0h8yZNf5S0ZvPIjhFbDQMQ99wxWqOQf7Q0EzL6yuexbWbArJaflqbXd5AfM20wAOE38ooo-v316LEhb44ZJTZqiyBnuT6Xu7BLxYKJ01q1ywE9dj9LrRhQ0/s1600/Picture7.png" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRQ8x_djhq1Llj9nHNu89N0h8yZNf5S0ZvPIjhFbDQMQ99wxWqOQf7Q0EzL6yuexbWbArJaflqbXd5AfM20wAOE38ooo-v316LEhb44ZJTZqiyBnuT6Xu7BLxYKJ01q1ywE9dj9LrRhQ0/s1600/Picture7.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></span></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Special Assistant to President Jonathan on New Media, Reno Omokri tweeted some hours ago seeking your opinion on how the Nigeria government have been able to handle the spread of Ebola Virus Disease in the country, find that below: You can also re-tweet or respond if you agree on <a class="ProfileTweet-originalAuthorLink u-linkComplex js-nav js-user-profile-link" data-user-id="264248576" href="https://twitter.com/renoomokri" style="text-decoration: none !important;"><span class="ProfileTweet-originalAuthor u-floatLeft u-textTruncate js-action-profile-name" style="display: inline !important; max-width: 60%; overflow: hidden !important; text-overflow: ellipsis !important; word-wrap: normal !important;"><b class="ProfileTweet-fullname u-linkComplex-target">Reno Omokri</b> <span class="ProfileTweet-screenname u-inlineBlock u-dir" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr !important; display: inline-block !important; max-width: 100%; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span class="at">@</span>renoomokri</span></span></a></span></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinRPff2uHzj33x_cVzMeRkeA80k3pvdecIkhkPU1UY8-4bZ1r1CUIUtD2aiDhS3aaXs5j1Nx1KBNXdMLcuYp7gly0kWpMOlkPgakXpqAjfC440vJ83Eezj0vMB-QbaLBO0pcN1-jPRqtU/s640/blogger-image--76131714.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinRPff2uHzj33x_cVzMeRkeA80k3pvdecIkhkPU1UY8-4bZ1r1CUIUtD2aiDhS3aaXs5j1Nx1KBNXdMLcuYp7gly0kWpMOlkPgakXpqAjfC440vJ83Eezj0vMB-QbaLBO0pcN1-jPRqtU/s640/blogger-image--76131714.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="426" /></span></a></div> </div> </div>

Your Opinion is needed Here: Rate the Federal Government's Effort to Contain the Spread of Ebola

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Congo confirms its first cases of Ebola, as British patient is flown to the UK

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2209523206360217154" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 2016px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img border="0" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCU29A9yEwZJDYEgjm06lqZyKm6xrT8p26iW-ajHsdyioqsFKAzBwG2o9TBZSU52mUYPYQ57CXXPz_44YXn9nIdy6nSfqHViFOmCHBwCJhrW82NmroIjZ3mTcYeirPp13oJ7srVEuQzLkN/s400/00.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px;" width="400" /></span></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><div class="nrelate nrelate_related nr_clear" id="nrelate_related_1" style="-webkit-box-shadow: none; -webkit-transform: none; background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; clear: both; margin: 5px 1px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2209523206360217154" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 2016px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have confirmed the first cases of Ebola virus in </span></div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2209523206360217154" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 2016px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">the n</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">orth-western region of the country. Confirming the cases, the country's health Minister, </span></div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2209523206360217154" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 2016px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Felix Kabange Numbi, said 8 people have tested positive to the deadly virus. </span></div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2209523206360217154" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 2016px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2209523206360217154" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 2016px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"The results are positive. The Ebola virus is confirmed in DRC," Mr Numbi told AFP</span></div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2209523206360217154" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 2016px;"> <div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">DR Congo is the first country outside the West African region to confirm positive cases of the Ebola </span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">virus since the recent outbreak. So far 1,427 people have died from the virus. <a href="" name="more"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more" style="text-decoration: none;"></a> </span></div> <div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1CI86GG52Y1tOYkSqwB5wOD_AUSD2ImYs2D8QEyAnD-fD6rj5NIngDekSg75zuJvz0LiyJz4VtF54g6kj6HUKv4C0Ykby1vrj0lCzYcRKtBtgLz3emQGWJslEh4Yj2KoGNAzAf7gGbDbJ/s1600/Untitled.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px;" /></span></div> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img border="0" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE9RUQNwwtDLAoi5LWCX-q6W_OmXO8oRrVe0S0Z0H5FuIEai96bN3unte4YbhFt1r5x4t8OC8AMDdMmnO29ofNlWAP_AQMfLdz5PPYPTVmA2fIvmi19_IighLkYOUzmAJ7nPS0GfyaOFjb/s1600/01.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px;" width="400" /></span></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><div class="nrelate nrelate_related nr_clear" id="nrelate_related_2" style="-webkit-box-shadow: none; -webkit-transform: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; clear: both; margin: 5px 1px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2209523206360217154" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 2016px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Meanwhile the British health worker who tested positive to the deadly virus in Sierra Leone has </span></div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2209523206360217154" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 2016px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">arrived back in the UK on board an RAF jet. (pictured above). 29 year old Nurse William Pooley </span></div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2209523206360217154" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 2016px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">landed at London's RAF Northolt in a specially-equipped C-17 aircraft today and was transported to </span></div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2209523206360217154" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 2016px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">an isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in north London.<br /><br />The man is 'not currently seriously unwell', a Department of Health spokesman said. </span><div class="nrelate nrelate_related nr_clear" id="nrelate_related_3" style="-webkit-box-shadow: none; -webkit-transform: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; clear: both; margin: 5px 1px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2209523206360217154" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 2016px;"> </div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div>

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'She vomited on me & lost her 2-month pregnancy' - Late nurse Justina’s fiance talks about surviving Ebola

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Dennis" class="attachment-thumbnail-single-image wp-post-image" height="400" src="http://ynaija.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Dennis.jpg" width="400" /></span></div> <div class="entry"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i><br /></i>The fiancé of late Justina Obi Ejelonu, the 29-year old nurse who was part of the team that treated Patrick Sawyer but gave up the ghost recently has spoken.<br />He shared a powerful story of how he refused to abandon his fiancé despite her being diagnosed with Ebola.<br />He revealed that Justina lost a two-month pregnancy, vomited severally on him while she collapsed and had to be carried to hospital by him.<br /><i>Dennis said when Justina contracted the disease, she was with him and he was solely responsible for her. When she fell ill, I took her to the hospital. She vomited severally on me on our way and also collapsed. I had to carry her when she collapsed till we got to there. She was two months pregnant, he said. When she tested positive she was ‘abandoned’ at the hospital and left to her fate, but I occasionally went in to take care of her, he narrated.</i><br /><a href="" name="more"></a></span><div class="wp-caption alignleft" id="attachment_291385" style="width: 235px;"> <span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://ynaija.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ebola-justina.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Justina Ejelonu, was a part of Dr. Adadevoh's team. She passed away a few days before the doctor." class="size-medium wp-image-291385" height="300" src="http://ynaija.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ebola-justina-225x300.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="225" /></a></span></span><div class="wp-caption-text"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Justina Ejelonu, was a part of Dr. Adadevoh’s team. She passed away a few days before the doctor.</span></div> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 15px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">After, Justina was admitted he hung around the hospital , occasionally going into the Ebola ward cater for her as <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD6">nurses</span> and doctors abandoned the nurse to her fate at the treatment centre.<br />Fourteen days after Justina died, Dennis had high <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD11">temperature</span>, instead of panicking he turned himself in to the treatment centre for observation.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 15px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">An initial test led the centre to quarantine him, and a second test came positive <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD12">leading</span> the centre to admit him to treatment but he was discharged hours ago, after his third test came out negative.</span></div> <div dir="ltr"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He walked off the centre in good health according top doctors who spoke anonymously with Saharareporters.</span></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> </div>

'She vomited on me & lost her 2-month pregnancy' - Late nurse Justina’s fiance talks about surviving Ebola

The fiancé of late Justina Obi Ejelonu, the 29-year old nurse who was part of the team that treated Patrick Sawyer but gave up the ghost...

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Fiancé Of Late Nurse Justina Free From Ebola, Discharged From Treatment Center

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1168336519515507149" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 660px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn6Hn51PRRA2zSbMmiqZrmPtNPkMUh7NZcULRIv6kVcrFbe-xsQtw-4cVdNBD0wa8EmAzAokUHkGDrgVV1kJL6kHszyCTjptIRp4dZitRSc-sJ863s9SQpN2GNbgUw9pAju4YfqgVDJps/s1600/Dennis.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn6Hn51PRRA2zSbMmiqZrmPtNPkMUh7NZcULRIv6kVcrFbe-xsQtw-4cVdNBD0wa8EmAzAokUHkGDrgVV1kJL6kHszyCTjptIRp4dZitRSc-sJ863s9SQpN2GNbgUw9pAju4YfqgVDJps/s1600/Dennis.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></span></a></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>              Dennis story is a powerful one, he refused to abandon his fiancé despite her being diagnosed with Ebola.</i><br /><br />The fiancé of a nurse who died of Ebola has been discharged from the Ebola treatment center in Lagos this evening after his third test came out negative.<br /><br />Dennis, who was late Justina Obi Ejelonu’s fiancé had been quarantined and later admitted into treatment after two tests confirmed that he was positive.<br /><br />However, this evening Dennis was discharged from the treatment center with a certificate of clearance. He walked off the center in good health according top doctors who spoke anonymously with Saharareporters.<br /><br />A second spouse of a deceased doctor who had primary contact with Liberian -American Thomas Sawyer who was admitted yesterday with Dennis remains hospitalized at the center, currently undergoing treatment.<br /><br />Dennis story is a powerful one, he refused to  abandon his fiancé despite her being diagnosed with Ebola.<br /><br />He told Saharareporters that Justina lost a two-month pregnancy, vomited severally on him while she collapsed and had to be carried to hospital by him. After, Justina was admitted he hung around the hospital , occasionally going into the Ebola ward cater for her as nurses and doctors abandoned the nurse to her fate at the treatment center.<br /><br />Fourteen days after Justina died, Dennis had high temperature, instead of panicking he turned himself in to the treatment center for observation. An initial test led the center to quarantine him, and a second test came positive leading the center to admit him to treatment but this evening he was fully discharged after a third test carried out by international affiliates of the center came out negative.<br /><br />Source: SaharaRepoters</span><div style="clear: both;"> </div> </div> <div class="post-footer" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin: 20px -2px 0px; padding: 5px 10px;"> </div> </div>

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How Ebola Virus Disease Came To Our Door, By First Consultants Hospital

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A statement Dr. Adadevoh co-authored with Dr. B.N. Ohiaeri before her death explained how Mr. Sawyer was first diagnosed with malaria upon his arrival on the night of July 20. It was when he failed to respond to treatment but instead began to develop “haemorrhagic symptoms” that he was questioned further.</span><br /> <div> <br /></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh, the Nigerian physician who died in Lagos this week, was mistakenly exposed to the Ebola Virus Disease at the First Consultants Medical Center in Ikoyi where she worked and attended to Patrick Sawyer, the patient who brought EVD into the country.</span><br /> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-shadow: none;"> <span class="ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded pull-right clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: block; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px 24px; max-width: 500px; width: 300px;"><span class="block-story-object-asset" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevor" class="media-element file-embedded" src="https://secure.saharareporters.com/sites/default/files/styles/normal_medium/public/adad.jpg?itok=PvA6sBjQ" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 300px;" title="Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevor" typeof="foaf:Image" /></span></span><span class="block-story-object-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; padding: 12px;"><span class="block-story-object-content-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block;"><span class="block-story-object-content-header-description" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-shadow: none;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevor</span></span></span><span class="block-story-object-content-footer" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin-top: 6px;"></span></span></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); box-sizing: border-box;">But she was heroically instrumental to preventing a massive outbreak in the country, an effort she paid for with her life last Tuesday.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-shadow: none;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A statement she co-authored with Dr. B.N. Ohiaeri before her death explained how Mr. Sawyer was first diagnosed with malaria upon his arrival on the night of July 20.  It was when he failed to respond to treatment but instead began to develop “haemorrhagic symptoms” that he was questioned further.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-shadow: none;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“He denied having been in contact with any persons with EVD (Ebola Virus Disease) at home, in any hospital or at any burial,” the statement said.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-shadow: none;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">First Consultants Medical Centre then began testing him for possible Infectious Haemorrhagic Disease, especially EVB, based on the fact that he was a Liberian citizen and the recent outbreak of EVD in that country, leading to EVD diagnosis. </span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-shadow: none;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">At that point, it was too late for Mr. Sawyer, but it appears it was also too late for Dr. Adadevoh, who then contracted the virus, and tragically died of the disease this week.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-shadow: none;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; text-shadow: none;">Text of the statement by First Consultants Medical Center Ltd</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-shadow: none;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; text-shadow: none;">In the interest of our patients, staff, the general public the nation at large we state the following:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />A 40-years old gentlemen came into the hospital with symptoms suggestive of Malaria (fever, headache, extreme weakness) on Sunday night (20th July 2014). He was fully conscious and gave us his clinical history and told us he is a Senior Diplomat from Liberia. Laboratory investigations confirmed malaria whilst other test for HIV, Hepatitis B&C were negative. He was admitted and treatment commenced.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />However, due to the fact that he was not responding to treatment but rather was developing haemorrhagic symptoms we further questioned him. He denied having been in contact with any persons with EVD (Ebola Virus Disease) at home, in any hospital or at any burial. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />In spite of this denial we immediately decided to do the following:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />1. To conduct further tests for possible Infectious Haemorrhagic Disease, especially EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE, based on the fact that he was a Liberian citizen and the recent outbreak of EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE in that country.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2. We immediately isolated/quarantined the patient, commenced barrier nursing and simultaneously contacted the Lagos State Ministry of Health and the Federal Ministry of Health to enquire where further laboratory tests could be performed as we had a high index of suspicion of possible EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />3. WE REFUSED FOR HIM TO BE LET OUT OF THE HOSPITAL IN SPITE OF INTENSE PRESSURE, AS WE WERE TOLD THAT HE WAS A SENIOR ECOWAS OFFICIAL AND HAD AN IMPORTANT ROLE TO PLAY AT THE ECOWAS CONVENTION IN CALABAR, CROSS RIVER STATE.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />4. The initial test results from LUTH laboratory indicated a signal of possible EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE, but required confirmation.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />5. We then took the further step of reaching out to Senior Officials in the office of the Secretary of Health of the United States of America who promptly assisted us with contacts at the centres for Disease Control (CDC) and World Health Organisation Regional Laboratory Centre in Senegal.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />6. Working jointly with the State, Federal Agencies and International Agencies, we were able to obtain confirmation of EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE (ZAIRE STRAIN), (W.H.O. Regional Center Lab-Senegal/Redeemes lab/LUTH Laboratory)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />7. The gentleman subsequently died on Friday at a 6.50 (25th July, 2014)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />8. All agencies were promptly notified and in consultation with W.H.O, Regional EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE Centre in Conakry, Guinea and Best Practices, the following was commenced: </span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-shadow: none;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; text-shadow: none;">a. Orderly temporarily shut down of the hospital with immediate evacuation of in house patients</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-shadow: none;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; text-shadow: none;">b. The appropriate professional removal of the body and its incineration under W.H.O. guidelines, witnessed by all appropriate agencies.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-shadow: none;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; text-shadow: none;">9. Having concluded the above, it is now appropriate to give this press release in the interest of our patient, staff, the general public and the nation at large.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />10. In keeping with W.H.O, guidelines, hospital is shut down briefly as full decontamination exercise is currently in progress W.H.O. Guidelines<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />In conclusion, working with the STATE, FEDERAL AND INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES, we were able to identify and confirm the diagnosis of the EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE. We hope that by our action of preventing this gentleman from being extracted from our hospital and traveling to Calabar we have been able to prevent the spread of EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE in Nigeria. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The Board and Management of the Hospital wish to thank all our staff members for their diligence and professionalism.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Thank You.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Signed<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Dr. B.N. OHIAERI<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />DR. A.S. ADADEVEOH<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />First Consultants Medical Centre Limited<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />16/24 Ikoyi Road,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Obalende,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Lagos</span></div> </div>

How Ebola Virus Disease Came To Our Door, By First Consultants Hospital

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Ebola: Patrick Sawyer was evil, a terrorist – Nigerians

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nigeria was a merry-go country and free of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) until late Liberian-American, Patrick Sawyer, ignominiously appeared on the scene on July 20 fully aware that he had the disease having had contacts with his sister, who died of EVB on July 8.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He had been suspended from work by his Company, Arcelor Mittal and was supposed to be under isolation, observation and monitoring. With the connivance of Liberia’s Deputy Finance Minister For Fiscal Affairs, Sebastian Muah, who cleared him to travel to Nigeria for an ECOWAS convention in Calabar, Mr. Sawyer, who avoided bodily contacts with people at the airport in Monrovia, Liberia found his way to Lagos.<a href="http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/ebola-patients-survived-experts/patrick-sawyer/" rel="attachment wp-att-460147" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.2s linear, border-top-color; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color 0.2s linear, border-top-color; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Patrick-Sawyer" class="alignright size-full wp-image-460147" height="232" src="http://dvsl3w2q45hb8.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Patrick-Sawyer.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: margin 0.2s linear, box-shadow; border: none; display: inline; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition: margin 0.2s linear, box-shadow;" width="175" /></a></span></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He boarded an Asky Airline plane and became severely ill on the plane and was taken to First Consultant Hospital, Obalende, from the Murtala Mohammed Airport in Lagos. Since Sawyer’s infamous arrival, Nigeria has lost four people to the Ebola disease: the ECOWAS official, who drove him to the hospital, two nurses who assisted him at the hospital and the doctor, who physically restrained him from leaving his bed after he tried to remove the drip administered on him.Saturday Vanguard asked our teeming readers their views of Mr. Sawyer and captures their interesting views below.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sawyer is wicked</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The man was a very wicked person. He knew that he had the virus and he deliberately decided to bring it to Nigeria. – <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Joseph Sunday, Interior Decorator.</span></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He needed help</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I see Patrick Sawyer as someone who only needed help. He knew he had the disease, but felt he could get a cure in Nigeria without knowing how deadly and serious it was. – <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jefferson Aisegame, Banker</span></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">His actions</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">expose our porosity as a nation</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The man became famous and will be remembered for a negative cause. His name has become synonymous and associated with the Ebola Virus – a time bomb whose explosion shows our porosity as a nation. I don’t think his actions were deliberate. <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Christopher Urokonweze, Biochemist</span></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He was a thief</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I think he’s a thief, because he knew he had the virus, yet he deliberately brought it here. He decided to distribute the disease to people. That kind of person is capable of terrible acts. Thank God, he was exposed at the airport. If he had succeeded and mixed up with people in the country without their knowledge, it would have been disastrous. – <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chief Gabriel Obi, Trader</span></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He was a </span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">terrorist, devil</span></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">That man was a terrorist. He was a devil incarnate. He knew he had it and that he was going to die, but he wanted to die with innocent people. If they hadn’t caught him here in Nigeria, he probably would have migrated to another country. The man was just out to kill. He is worse than Boko Haram.- <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Elias Nwoke, Businessman</span></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sawyer should’nt have left Liberia</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I think since he knew his condition and knowing that there was no case of the disease in Nigeria, he shouldn’t have embarked on that journey to this country. But maybe what ever the issue brought him here must have been very crucial. – <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dr. Adeyinka Adeleye.</span></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He was </span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">very wicked</span></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The man knew what he was doing. He knew the disease is deadly and dangerous, still he travelled to Nigeria with it. That man was a very wicked man. We just pray to God to help us. – <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Victoria Eretan, Nurse</span></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It was sheer wickedness</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What he did was sheer wickedness. If he wanted a cure, he should have remained in his country and looked for a cure there instead of coming to spread it here. Now, we are all suffering as a result. I pray the government gets a cure to the disease soonest. – <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mrs. Okoro Kate, Trader.</span></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He would have got help in Liberia</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What that man did was bad. He wasn’t supposed to come into Nigeria with that disease. He should have remained where he was and I believe people would have been able to help him there. – <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mrs. Amaka Aniagolu.</span></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">EVB has affected our businesses</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Since he knew he had the virus, he wasn’t supposed to travel. He should have remained where he was.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">People are no longer free and this disease has caused bad sales for us. – <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Olaide Sheriff, Meat Seller</span></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sawyer was heartless</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">That man was heartless and wicked. He decided to bring his problem to this country to cause us more problems. What he did was very bad and he did it intentionally. – <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Akeem Adeyemo, Meat Seller.</span></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He didn’t want </span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">to die alone</span></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The man just acted like a typical African who wouldn’t want to fall alone, so he decided to spread the virus. He wanted people to die with him . – <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Fortune Wilson, Businessman.</span></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Episode exposed lapses in our security system</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He knew quite well that he had the virus, yet he came into the country with it. This shows the lapses in our security system and how porous our borders are. He didn’t want to die alone and his actions have resulted into an epidemic. – <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chief P.C Agu, Businessman.</span></span></div> <div class="OUTBRAIN" data-browser="safari" data-dynload="" data-ob-mark="true" data-os="ipad" data-src="http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/ebola-patrick-sawyer-evil-terrorist-nigerians/" id="outbrain_widget_0" obdone="true" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="ob_strip_container NA" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"> <span class="ob_empty" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><wbr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></wbr></span><span class="ob_org_header" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div> </div> </div>

Ebola: Patrick Sawyer was evil, a terrorist – Nigerians

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Dr. Nancy Writebol: The US Doctor that survived Ebola talks about possibility of returning to Africa

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">        <img alt="Nancy Writebol - August 2014 - BN News - BellaNaija.com 01" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-424603" height="450" src="http://www.bellanaija.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Nancy-Writebol-August-2014-BN-News-BellaNaija.com-01.jpg" width="600" /></span></div> <strong><div style="text-align: left;"> <strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </strong></div> </strong></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong>Dr. Nancy WhriteboI</strong> is a woman with a heart of gold.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The 59-year-old who was released on Tuesday from the <strong>Emory University Hospital</strong>, Atlanta, after being airlifted to the U.S. from Liberia, has her mind on Africa.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She was the other American, apart from <strong>Dr. Kent Brantley</strong>, to contract the deadly disease.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In an interview with <strong>Matt Lauer</strong> on the <a href="http://www.today.com/health/sons-ebola-patient-nancy-writebol-shes-happy-be-healed-1D80099874" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Today</a> show today Friday 22nd August 2014, her sons reveal that and more.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Writebol sons say their mum is already talking about what she wants to do next, which includes possibly returning to Africa to continue ministering to people.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“She’s still thinking about it,” her son Jeremy told Lauer.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Jeremy added that her parents have deep compassion for those in need, “Africa is still in their heart and the</span></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="" name="more"></a>suffering and the people in western Africa is still very deep for them.”<br /><br /></span></div>

Dr. Nancy Writebol: The US Doctor that survived Ebola talks about possibility of returning to Africa

           Dr. Nancy WhriteboI  is a woman with a heart of gold. The 59-year-old who was released on Tuesday from the  Emory Unive...

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PRAY: Spouses of two dead Nigerian Ebola victims test positive - Health Minister

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwm-rxLIsmC7_IJ1NoU3jXJpRmoKa4JupS9ir2WAsi2IZ2ET_SgTDfOVs6Vn3keERbKvj78O73KOsD7rgZohJAwufOanqcCz3fzs0ISYNxodtE2-PeX7VMMVk7tdz1wjjIqcSCnVk1Fs16/s1600/ebola.jpg" /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br />Minister of Health Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu announced today August 22nd that Nigeria has recorded two new cases of the Ebola disease.<br /><br />The Minister said the two new cases are spouses of dead Ebola victims who had primary contact with late Patrick Sawyer, the man who brought Ebola to Nigeria. Prof. Chukwu said the two new cases are the first secondary contacts in isolation to test positive to the deadly virus.<br /><br />This brings the total number of cases in Nigeria to 14, with 5 deaths and 5 survivors. Details soon..</span></div>

PRAY: Spouses of two dead Nigerian Ebola victims test positive - Health Minister

Minister of Health Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu announced today August 22nd that Nigeria has recorded two new cases of the Ebola disease....

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This is How Ebola Spread into Sierra Leone and went viral

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">                            <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisHsJgMZCVAKGB6-m6USDVBESgDp8BaxDhNv1cebe0oU0gQPCCijCmUx7ww0YFfNI0rnUkOuEyt5guIA09ayCZUKvKz_PwVWsq4z_b9lHJv4Z4nKXZFV0jbRqUNHGvjRG65IPhyphenhyphenZnhsvQ/s1600/ebola-011.jpg" /></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Health officials in <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD1">Sierra Leone</span> have blamed the outbreak of the deadly <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD2">Ebola Virus</span> on a female herbalist who claimed to have power to heal people of the disease.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The health officials said the disease should not have spread from Guinea to Sierra Leone, but for the herbalist who lived in the eastern border village of Sokoma.</span></div> <span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more" style="text-decoration: none;"></a><br /></span></span> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> “She was claiming to have powers to heal <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD8">Ebola</span>. Cases from Guinea were crossing into Sierra Leone for treatment,” Mohamed Vandi, the <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD4">top medical</span> official in the hard-hit district of Kenema, told <em>Agence France-Presse</em>.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“She got infected and died. During her funeral, women around the other towns got infected.”<br />The herbalist’s mourners fanned out across the rolling <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD3">hills</span> of the Kissi tribal chiefdoms, starting a <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD7">chain reaction</span> of <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD6">infections</span>, deaths, funerals and more infections.<a href="" name="more"></a></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The deadly Ebola Virus has claimed the lives of more than 1,300 people in West Africa as well as a Spanish Priest who died last week in Spain.</span></div> <br /></div>

This is How Ebola Spread into Sierra Leone and went viral

                               Health officials in  Sierra Leone  have blamed the outbreak of the deadly  Ebola Virus  on a female her...

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Dr. Kent Brantly: The US Doctor that contracted Ebola, to be released today

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">                             US doctor with Ebola to be released from hospital today</span></span></h3> <div class="post-header" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em;"> <div class="post-header-line-1"> </div> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1790621611916746014" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 616px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: black; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;">        <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNGrDgiGZnnOhx8rYcG_hKxBBByNZkvbmoXIc33NWFkoCYrM57lIq9Rxc6dTQB2JYkVLysimnBm481ihpZXZbi6gT3fxnCA3ATXlgznyBr1XVaXtirM3gBxZoxwoQkl4hyl3rDhc1bFnw/s1600/02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNGrDgiGZnnOhx8rYcG_hKxBBByNZkvbmoXIc33NWFkoCYrM57lIq9Rxc6dTQB2JYkVLysimnBm481ihpZXZbi6gT3fxnCA3ATXlgznyBr1XVaXtirM3gBxZoxwoQkl4hyl3rDhc1bFnw/s1600/02.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 0, 0); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" /></a></span></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1790621611916746014" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 616px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> Dr Kent Brantly, the American doctor who contracted the deadly Ebola virus in Liberia while working as a missionary in the country will be released from Atlanta's Emory University Hospital today August 21st after being successful treated.<br /><br />According to the spokesperson of the hospital, Vince Dollard, Dr. Kent's blood samples came back negative for the virus after undergoing proper screening for two days. Dr. Kent is expected to give a statement regarding his discharge later today at a news conference before leaving the hospital.</span><div> </div> <div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dr. Kent and another US missionary Nancy Writebol contracted the disease while working to fight the outbreak in Liberia. After they contracted the disease they were taken to an isolation unit at Emory University Hospital, where they were treated with the experimental drug, ZMapp.</span></div> </div> </div>

Dr. Kent Brantly: The US Doctor that contracted Ebola, to be released today

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Healed Ebola victim Causes a Stir in Church

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="liberia-ebola-unicef-campaign" class="attachment-thumbnail-single-image wp-post-image" height="425" src="http://ynaija.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/liberia-ebola-unicef-campaign-780x519.jpg" width="640" /></span></div> <div class="entry"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><em><br /></em>Who is in for some loud and long laughter?</span></div> <div class="entry"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br />One of the health attendants that attended to the Liberian Patrick Sawyer, but survived the ravages of the disease, allegedly caused commotion in her church last Sunday.<br />According to reports, the young woman (name withheld) had stepped out to testify to the goodness of God in her life.</span><br /> <div class="im"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When it was her turn to share her testimony with the congregation, she sang and thanked God for helping her survive the ailment and testing negative to Ebola. Everyone allegedly joined in clapping and thanking God on her behalf.However, when it was time for her to return the microphone to the pastor to call the next person, THISDAY reports thus:</span></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“The Pastor said she should handover the microphone to the next person, but the next person shifted back<br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6089869001362915509" name="more"></a>and refused to collect it. The Ebola survivor tried to hand the microphone over to other testifiers but they also declined, claiming that they would testify later. The sister had to put the microphone on the floor. Before she could turn back to return to her seat, almost everyone around her in the church had jumped outside to escape contracting the disease.”</span></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div>

Healed Ebola victim Causes a Stir in Church

Who is in for some loud and long laughter? One of the health attendants that attended to the Liberian Patrick Sawyer, but survived the...

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Ebola scare in Ibadan, Nigeria

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br /> <br /> <header class="post-header cf" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="featured" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ebola-67.jpg" itemprop="image" rel="prettyPhoto" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Ebola scare in Ibadan"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="ebola 67" class="attachment-main-slider wp-post-image no-display appear" height="336" src="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ebola-67-624x336.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Ebola scare in Ibadan" width="624" /></span></a></div> <h1 class="post-title" itemprop="name" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 35px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ebola scare in Ibadan</span></span></h1> <a class="comments" href="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=77843#comments" style="border: 0px; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 0px -35px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="fa fa-comments-o" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"></span> </span></span></a></header><br /> <div class="post-container cf" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="post-content-right" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="post-content description" itemprop="articleBody" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px -1.857em; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There was fear in Ibadan yesterday, when news broke out that the first case of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) has been recorded in Oyo State. </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A sick baby, who was taken to Adeoyo State Hospital, Ring Road, Ibadan on Monday, was said to have manifested symptoms of the disease at the hospital. It was gathered that the development caused commotion in the hospital as staff members, patients as well as other visitors reportedly ran for safety.</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 residents of the community, it was gathered were considering relocation from the area, pending the confirmation of the case by the government, while many have vowed not to go near the hospital, to avoid contracting the virus.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But the state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Muyiwa Gbadegesin, told newsmen in Ibadan that it was too early to conclude that the suspected patient had the virus, adding that blood sample had been collected from the baby for laboratory analysis at the virology laboratory of the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">His words: “We saw a suspected patient. It will be presumptuous to jump into conclusion until the result of the test is out. It is not likely to be positive, but let’s wait for the result of the blood test.”</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Gbadegesin, however, appealed to residents of the state not to panic, saying the government had taken necessary steps to check the disease.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Also, an epidemiologist with the State Ministry of Health, Dr. Abass Gbolahan, corroborated what the commissioner said, stressing that the ministry’s record did not show that a child had been infected. “From our records at the Oyo State Ministry of Health, we are not aware of any child said to have the infection.</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 only one that we are aware of is that which was rumoured at the weekend. He was said to have travelled to Liberia and he visited a private hospital in Ibadan,”  he said.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Gbolahan stated that the ministry investigated the case and discovered that the suspected person has not travelled outside Nigeria in the past four years. However,  he said the ministry did not take anything for chance, as the person had been placed on isolation and his blood sample taken for analysis at UCH. The result of the test, he said, would ascertain the fact.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Meanwhile, the chairman of Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) in the state, Dr. Muideen Olatunji, has said the association has constituted a Response Team (RT) for possible outbreak of EVD in the state.  He averred that the ongoing nationwide strike embarked upon by doctors would not prevent members of NMA from helping the state and the country to overcome the Ebola epidemic.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">…Ogun puts 3 under surveillance</b></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> From Moshood Adebayo, Abeokuta Ogun State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Olaokun Soyinka yesterday,  said two Guineans and a Nigerian were on Friday arrested and put under surveillance to checkmate the deadly  Ebola Virus Disease (EVD).</span><br /> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The  commissioner said the persons were stopped while travelling into Nigeria through Imeko-Afon area of the state, adding that the travellers, who  were entering the country through Guinea, were stopped and questioned by officials of the Port Health Authorities, who later alerted the local authorities and the state government for necessary action.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">While reiterating the commitment and readiness of the state government to guard against the outbreak, Soyinka said the three persons willingly submitted themselves for monitoring for 21 days. </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">His words: “In Ogun, we remain free of the virus, but we are vulnerable, particularly because of our long international border. </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“In addition to the training for Health Care Workers, refresher information and further sensitization is taking place and we are focusing extra resources on the border local government areas. </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Our rapid response teams at the local government area level are in place as our surveillance teams."</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 fact, we have already stopped some travellers detained at an illegal border crossing at Imeko Afon, who were coming from Guinea, they are being monitored.” </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He disclosed that the state had established three isolation sites in each of the senatorial districts,  adding that 50 volunteers were being trained on variety of Ebola tasks.</span></div> </div> <div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.857em; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> -Sun Newspaper</div> </div> <div> <br /></div> <div id="adscontainer" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.857; margin: 0px 0px 1.857em; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

Ebola scare in Ibadan, Nigeria

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Ebola: US Commends Nigeria as Four More Patients are Discharged

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSPW0v8xYpxt8h-SFOrJGzl_tG7gq12wNfGjmWpvHjahFjWgv8tRpkuPvuHkVmsPGODd6czVV8KXtmfi9OJjtWG_ihtPhRDDWobObt47lnZafsqmg_SGEBBo02E6qsljOb-KsDUgSeMio/s1600/Onyebuchi-Chukwu.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSPW0v8xYpxt8h-SFOrJGzl_tG7gq12wNfGjmWpvHjahFjWgv8tRpkuPvuHkVmsPGODd6czVV8KXtmfi9OJjtWG_ihtPhRDDWobObt47lnZafsqmg_SGEBBo02E6qsljOb-KsDUgSeMio/s1600/Onyebuchi-Chukwu.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" /></span></a></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <em style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Prof Onyebuchi Chukwu, Health Minister</em></div> <ul> <li style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Rules out sending trial drug</span></li> <li style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Two new persons in Lagos, one in Kaduna placed under watch </span></li> <li style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> WHO: All outbound travellers must be screened</span></li> </ul> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The US government has commended the Nigerian government and its health authorities for their handling of the Ebola virus since it broke in Lagos last month.</span></div> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The US’ commendation came on the back of more good news yesterday that four more patients who had contracted the disease had been discharged and declared free of the infectious disease.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">With their discharge, this brings the total number of people who have been given the all clear to five.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A total of 12 people were struck with the virus in Nigeria, including the index case Patrick Sawyer, of which four have died, five have been discharged while three remain in the isolation ward at the Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba, Lagos.</span></div> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">However, all hopes that the US would send the ZMapp experimental drug to Nigeria were dimmed yesterday when the US government ruled out the possibility, saying there were insufficient quantities of the drug available.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Making this known when he visited the Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, in Abuja, the US</span></div> </div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><em><strong></strong></em><a href="" name="more"></a>Ambassador to Nigeria, James Entwistle, informed reporters that what was needed was to focus primarily on isolation and the screening of patients or those suspected to have contracted the virus.</span><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">According to Entwistle: “We’ll see down the road what is possible. But there are no huge quantities now. And we think the focus now needs to be on exactly what you are doing: the isolation wards, screening, and especially important that now your government is doing a very good job on this, that is contact tracing.”</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The envoy said he just came back from the US late last week, adding, “I was in Washington, of course, for the US-African Leaders Summit and I came over to see the minister right away as soon as I got back into town to discuss our anti-Ebola cooperation.</span></div> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I was in the room in Washington when Vice President (Joe) Biden and President (Goodluck) Jonathan talked about the Ebola crisis, talked about our partnership, and pledged the total cooperation between your government and my government on this issue.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“So I just came over to see the minister this morning to talk to him about that and you’ve all seen the headlines over the weekend. This is an issue where we have to keep working hard. It may last for a while but there are some encouraging signs.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“The Emergency Operation Centre (EOC), I understand, is working well. The isolation ward, I understand, is working well. So this is an example we have, as part of the broad partnership between our two countries, just keep collaborating and cooperating and keep working hard.”</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">While commending Nigeria for effectively curtailing the spread of the Ebola virus, Entwistle stated: “I noticed that when I flew back on Thursday night into this country, before I left the plane, I filled out a questionnaire.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I was very impressed because I even had to put my seat number which is a very good idea. So if you ever have to trace the guy sitting next to me you know where I am. So I have been impressed by these things and I encourage the government of Nigeria to keep at it as I know they will.</span></div> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I always say we have a broad partnership between our two countries which means we do things together as equals to make the world a better place. I can’t think of a more important example today than our Ebola cooperation.”</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Chukwu, on his part, said the visit came at the right time considering the need for collaboration between the two countries, specifically on the Ebola virus.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Chukwu said as the representative of the US government, the envoy will assist in various ways in the prevention of the virus from spreading further.</span></div> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The minister referred to the US ambassador as the spokesperson for the US government in Nigeria, adding, “So he came to me as the chief public health officer of the country, because that is what the Minister of Health is, to exchange views with me on the collaboration with America.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <strong><div style="text-align: left;"> <strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Four Patients Discharged</strong></div> </strong><div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The minister also disclosed that four additional patients were yesterday discharged and declared free of the infectious disease.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In a statement in Abuja, Chukwu said the development was a good omen for Nigeria, taking into cognisance the devastation the virus had caused in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.</span></div> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The statement signed by his Special Assistant, Media and Communication, Dan Nwomeh, stated that the “Minister of Health has announced that four additional confirmed cases of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), which have been managed successfully, and are now disease-free and have been discharged to go home today (yesterday)”.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It added that the discharged patients included two male medical doctors and one female nurse.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“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.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“This brings to five the total number of patients diagnosed with the Ebola Virus Disease who have now been discharged from hospital,” it explained.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <strong><div style="text-align: left;"> <strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Three under Surveillance</strong></div> </strong><div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Also, giving an update, the Lagos State Government yesterday confirmed the discharge of the four patients, but revealed that three more persons had been placed under surveillance to ascertain whether they would show symptoms of the disease.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The state’s Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, made the disclosure last night at the Infectious Disease Hospital in Yaba, stating: “We have four more patients that are ready to be discharged today (yesterday).</span></div> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“They have gone through the same protocol. The protocol is that before we release anyone or certify him or her negative, he or she has to be symptom-free for a period of over three weeks.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“We also had to test their blood samples and the result was negative. They will be released today after they have completed their counseling being conducted by our psychosocial team. But they will come periodically for check-ups, though they are okay.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“The other three patients are still being monitored at the isolation centre. Once they get better, they will be released. The lady who ran to Enugu is still under isolation and she has tested positive to the virus.”</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On those under surveillance, Idris said the new cases had been discovered. “One of them is a blood sample from Kaduna while two others are from Lagos. They are primary contacts. On the Kaduna case, the reason for this is that they do not have the laboratory to test for the virus.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Four persons have died already, including the index case, Mr. Patrick Sawyer. We had eight in the isolation ward before Saturday when we released the doctor. This doctor was released after testing negative and going through the WHO and CDC procedures for discharge.”</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Idris maintained that there have been 12 confirmed cases, which he said included the index case, noting that all the cases that had been confirmed positive and those who had died were linked to the index case.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He also disclosed that more medical personnel had shown interest “to care for the patients. We have eight doctors and nine nurses and some health workers who have gone through training.</span></div> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“We have also been joined by infectious disease experts from the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH). All these people have gone through training. Though the number is not enough as we need more”.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <strong><div style="text-align: left;"> <strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">NLC Opposes Doctors’ Dismissal</strong></div> </strong><div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But as Nigeria made inroads in its fight against the virus, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) criticised the federal government’s dismissal of resident doctors in federal hospitals.</span></div> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">NLC, in a statement yesterday by its president, Abdulwaheed Omar, said it was ill-advised and urged government to reconsider its stand in view of the prevailing health challenges in the coutry.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The union pointed out that no country could afford to neglect its health sector, including the personnel that work there during trying times.</span></div> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It emphasised that what the country needed urgently was the recruitment of more health professionals, well equipped public hospitals, and a well organised health system capable of responding to the health concerns of Nigeria’s growing population.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“We believe the federal government was misadvised and also misled by this action. It is clearly unwarranted to sack doctors just as we are collectively faced with the challenge of the Ebola virus. It is even more dangerous to sack medical personnel in a country of over 170 million people with a ratio of one doctor to over five thousand patients.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“What the country needs urgently is recruitment of more health professionals, well equipped public hospitals, and a well organised health system, and not sacking of any category of health personnel,” the NLC said.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It urged the federal government to carry out an urgent audit of the public health sector to determine the state of the sector in terms of equipment, personnel and funding.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“While workers and indeed all Nigerians are at great risk and require adequate protection, those in the medical sector should particularly be sufficiently equipped and given incentives to guarantee their safety and boost morale.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“No country can afford, especially in these trying times, to neglect its health sector, including the personnel that work there,” the statement added.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <strong><div style="text-align: left;"> <strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Doctors Protest</strong></div> </strong><div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The NLC’s position was given fillip by the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) in Lagos and Ondo States whose members embarked on peaceful protests against the government’s sack of the resident doctors.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Lagos State NMA chairman, Dr. Tope Ojo, who led his colleagues on the protest at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), said a reversal of the mass sacking was the only thing that could make discussions with government continue on the strike.</span></div> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said this was an important step for NMA to continue to dialogue with the government, adding that doctors should not feel threatened by the sack.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ojo said doctors were not asking for an increment in their salary but a better healthcare delivery system.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“The country’s universal health coverage is inadequate as it only covers 30 per cent of the people. We want this for everybody, irrespective of age and class in the society,” he added.</span></div> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The NMA chair also urged the government to lift the ban on residency training so that medical education can continue to grow like those of the United Kingdom and the US.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Also speaking, the Second Vice President, Lagos State branch of NMA, Dr. Olusegun Akinwotu, said resident doctors constituted about 60 per cent of the medical workforce, adding that sacking them would mean killing the patients who require their services.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Also government’s handling of the issue is not encouraging as resident doctors join consultants during surgery. They also impart knowledge on to house officers,” he said.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Speaking to the protesters, the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of LUTH, Prof Akin Osibogun, represented by the hospital’s Chairman Medical Advisory Committee (CMAC), Prof Chris Bode, said they should go about their complaints peacefully.</span></div> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said the situation called for sober reflection and moderation. “We are doctors and it is expected of us to be of high moral conduct. We must not constitute a danger to the public,” Osibogun said.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">NMA presented a letter stating their demands to the CMD for onward transmission to the health minister.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Similarly, doctors in Ondo State under the auspices of NMA demanded the recall 16,000 resident doctors sacked by the federal government before they could return to the negotiating table with the government to end their strike.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The chairman of the state chapter, Dr. Bamidele Betiku, said the decision of the federal government would make the country lack specialised doctors and make adequate healthcare delivery elusive to the masses.</span></div> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The doctors, who marched from the NMA secretariat along Igbatoro Road to the governor's office in Alagbaka, Akure, sang solidarity songs while the protest lasted.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Also, the Cross River State chapter of NMA equated the sack of the resident doctors with the closure of all federal medical institutions in the country.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">NMA in the state said the sacking of the resident doctors, by implication, was the consequential sack of about 64,000 of its members.</span></div> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Chairman of the NMA in the state, Dr. Calistus Enyuma, a consultant pediatrician, at a press briefing in Calabar, said: “As it stands, the federal government suspended the training of resident doctors; that means the government has closed down teaching hospitals, closed down medical schools, and the implication is that you have sacked over 64,000 doctors throughout Nigeria.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“It happened during the (Muhammadu) Burari regime in 1984 and we had the brain drain and you can guess what will happen in the next few months.”</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On the current strike embarked on by the NMA, he said: “Our appeal to the federal government is to negotiate with the NMA to bring sanity to the health sector.”</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <strong><div style="text-align: left;"> <strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">EU Border Agency Suspends Migrant Flights</strong></div> </strong><div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In a related incident, the European Union (EU) border agency, Frontex, said yesterday it had suspended flights taking migrants back to Nigeria.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“We have decided to indefinitely suspend those flights that we coordinate and co-finance to Nigeria,” Frontex spokeswoman, Ewa Moncure told AFP.</span></div> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Warsaw-based agency only handles around two per cent of all flights carrying migrants who have crossed into the EU back home. The EU countries in question handle the rest.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Last year, 160,000 such migrants were sent back to their home countries, mainly to Albania, India, Pakistan and Russia.</span></div> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Certain countries, notably Austria, have taken a similar decision” to suspend flights to countries affected by the deadly Ebola virus, Moncure said.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The current Ebola outbreak, the worst since the virus first appeared in 1976, has claimed 1,145 lives including four in Nigeria.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <strong><div style="text-align: left;"> <strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">WHO: All Outbound Travellers Must be Screened</strong></div> </strong><div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Meanwhile, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has advised authorities in countries struck with Ebola to screen all travellers departing at international airports, seaports and major border crossings.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A statement issued by the UN health agency recommended that people with any sign of the virus should be stopped from travelling.</span></div> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The agency reiterated that the risk of getting infected with Ebola on an aircraft was small and said there was no need for wider travel or trade restrictions, reported the Reuters news agency.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Affected countries are requested to conduct exit screening of all persons at international airports, seaports and major land crossings, for unexplained febrile illness consistent with potential Ebola infection.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Any person with an illness consistent with EVD should not be allowed to travel unless the travel is part of an appropriate medical evacuation,” the statement said.</span></div> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Nigeria’s health minister had on August 7 announced that all outbound passengers from the country would be screened.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The precautionary measure was taken after the disease was imported into Nigeria from Liberia on July 20.</span></div> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Source: ThisDay</i></div> </div>

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