Olympic Organisers Issue Ban Over Ebola Risk

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">                                          <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Olympic Youth Games are hit by a ban on some swimming and combat event competitors, amid rising fears of Ebola spreading.</span><br /> <div class="last-updated" style="bottom: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 40px; max-width: 40%; position: absolute; right: 0px; text-align: right;"> <div class="last-updated__text" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"> </div> </div> <br /> <br /> <br /> <section class="story__media" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="module module--primary" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; width: 660px;"> <div class="image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 25px;"> <div class="image__wrapper image__wrapper--16x9" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 371px; position: relative;"> <img alt="" class="image__item js-responsive" data-breakpoint="" data-sizes="144x81 362x204 762x428 942x530 1600x900" data-sizes-wide="" data-template="http://media.skynews.com/media/images/generated/2014/8/14/329501/default/v2/rtr42git-1-{width}x{height}.jpg" src="http://media.skynews.com/media/images/generated/2014/8/14/329501/default/v2/rtr42git-1-1600x900.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(220, 220, 220); 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max-width: 540px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said three competitors would not be allowed to take part in combat sports and swimming pool events.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 540px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The IOC and the Nanjing Youth Olympic Games Organising Committee said it was impossible to rule out the risk of potential infection.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 540px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The ebola outbreak was first identified in Guinea in March and has since spread to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria.</span></div> <div class="image image--inline" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin: 0px auto 1em; max-width: 540px;"> <div class="image__wrapper image__wrapper--4x3" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 405px; position: relative;"> <img alt="" class="image__item js-responsive" data-breakpoint="" data-sizes="91x68 300x225 480x360" data-sizes-wide="" data-template="http://media.skynews.com/media/images/generated/2014/8/15/329569/default/v1/rtr41xfe-1-{width}x{height}.jpg" src="http://media.skynews.com/media/images/generated/2014/8/15/329569/default/v1/rtr41xfe-1-480x360.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(220, 220, 220); box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 405px; max-width: 100%; page-break-inside: avoid; position: absolute; vertical-align: middle; width: 540px;" /></div> <div class="image__caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; min-height: 40px; padding: 10px 8px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Martial arts performers practice for the opening ceremony on Saturday</span></div> </div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 540px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Those from the affected regions competing in other sports will undergo regular temperature checks and physical assessments throughout the games, which begin on Saturday.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 540px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The IOC added that there had been no suspected cases of ebola reported in China and "the risk of infection is extremely unlikely". </span></div> <div class="module module--inline video" data-format-high="http://video.news.sky.com/video/h264/vod/700/2014/08/080814EBOLATOMCAIRNS1407509412066700.mp4" data-format-low="http://video.news.sky.com/video/h264/vod/374/2014/08/080814EBOLATOMCAIRNS1407509412066374.mp4" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin: 0px auto 1em; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;"> <div class="video__placeholder-wrapper js-video" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; height: 0px; padding-bottom: 303px; position: relative; width: 540px;"> <div class="image" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <div class="image__wrapper image__wrapper--16x9" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 303px; position: relative;"> <img alt="" class="image__item video__teaser-image js-responsive" data-breakpoint="" data-sizes="144x81 362x204 762x428 942x530" data-sizes-wide="" data-template="http://media.skynews.com/media/images/generated/2014/8/8/328241/default/v2/cegrab-20140808-161457-678-1-{width}x{height}.jpg" src="http://media.skynews.com/media/images/generated/2014/8/8/328241/default/v2/cegrab-20140808-161457-678-1-942x530.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(220, 220, 220); 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min-height: 40px; padding: 10px 8px; width: 540px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="video__type" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Video:</span> <span class="video__teaser" style="box-sizing: border-box;">1970s Ebola Survivor Speaks Out</span></span></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 540px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The decision came after the World Health Organisation (WHO) said the number of deaths and confirmed cases of ebola in West Africa has been vastly underestimated.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 540px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The death toll from the outbreak in the region currently stands at more than 1,068 people.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 540px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There have been 1,975 confirmed, probable or suspected cases, the WHO said.</span></div> <div class="module module--inline video" data-format-high="http://video.news.sky.com/video/h264/vod/700/2014/07/010714EBOLACRAWFORDJOURNEYCUP1404274365252700.mp4" data-format-low="http://video.news.sky.com/video/h264/vod/374/2014/07/010714EBOLACRAWFORDJOURNEYCUP1404274365252374.mp4" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin: 0px auto 1em; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;"> <div class="video__placeholder-wrapper js-video" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; height: 0px; padding-bottom: 303px; position: relative; width: 540px;"> <div class="image" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <div class="image__wrapper image__wrapper--16x9" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 303px; position: relative;"> <img alt="" class="image__item video__teaser-image js-responsive" data-breakpoint="" data-sizes="144x81 362x204 762x428 942x530" data-sizes-wide="" data-template="http://media.skynews.com/media/images/generated/2014/7/1/320309/default/v1/cegrab-20140701-204001-380-1-{width}x{height}.jpg" src="http://media.skynews.com/media/images/generated/2014/7/1/320309/default/v1/cegrab-20140701-204001-380-1-942x530.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(220, 220, 220); 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min-height: 40px; padding: 10px 8px; width: 540px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="video__type" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Video:</span> <span class="video__teaser" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Travelling Through Ebola Epicentre</span></span></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 540px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The majority of the cases have occurred in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. Four deaths have also been reported in Nigeria.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 540px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But the WHO said there was evidence that the number of reported cases underestimated the scale of the suffering.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 540px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"The outbreak is expected to continue for some time. WHO's operational response plan extends over the next several months," it said on Thursday.</span></div> <div class="module module--inline video" data-format-high="http://video.news.sky.com/video/h264/vod/700/2014/08/080814IPADEBOLAGuest1407496615890700.mp4" data-format-low="http://video.news.sky.com/video/h264/vod/374/2014/08/080814IPADEBOLAGuest1407496615890374.mp4" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin: 0px auto 1em; max-width: 540px; width: 540px;"> <div class="video__placeholder-wrapper js-video" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; height: 0px; padding-bottom: 303px; position: relative; width: 540px;"> <div class="image" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <div class="image__wrapper image__wrapper--16x9" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 303px; position: relative;"> <img alt="" class="image__item video__teaser-image js-responsive" data-breakpoint="" data-sizes="144x81 362x204 762x428 942x530" data-sizes-wide="" data-template="http://media.skynews.com/media/images/generated/2014/8/7/328003/default/v0/rtr40z0t-2-{width}x{height}.jpg" src="http://media.skynews.com/media/images/generated/2014/8/7/328003/default/v0/rtr40z0t-2-942x530.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(220, 220, 220); 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max-width: 540px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Officials say only three people will receive the drug, which could prove life-saving, but may be ineffective or even harmful.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 540px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Liberian government previously said two doctors would receive ZMapp, but it remains unclear who else will be treated.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 540px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The ebola outbreak was first identified in Guinea in March and has since spread to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria.</span></div> </section><section class="partner-links" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 60px; max-width: 540px; overflow: hidden;"><div class="partner-links__external" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <h2 class="partner-links__title" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); 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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br /> <br /> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">L</span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AGOS —</span> FOLLOWING the death of the matron that was one of the primary contacts of the late American-Liberian, Mr. Patrick Sawyer, who died recently of Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, in Lagos, Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, has described the presence of Ebola in the country as a national emergency.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Chukwu made this known when he appeared before the House of Representatives Committee on Health. He said: “The fact that a Liberian victim of the disease, Mr. Patrick Sawyer could come and die in Nigeria meant that the virus was a global threat.<br style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><a href="http://www.vanguardngr.com/?attachment_id=458371" rel="attachment wp-att-458371" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.2s linear, border-top-color; border: 0px; color: #0a67b3; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color 0.2s linear, border-top-color; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="ebola11" class="alignright size-full wp-image-458371" height="250" src="http://dvsl3w2q45hb8.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ebola11.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: margin 0.2s linear, box-shadow; border: none; display: inline; float: right; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition: margin 0.2s linear, box-shadow;" width="412" /></a><br style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />“This is a national emergency. Everyone in the world today is at risk. The experience of Nigeria opens the eyes of the world,” he said.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> In Lagos, the state government has appealed to religious organizations including churches and mosques to step down on congregational activities that will bring a large number of worshippers together.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Making the appeal in Lagos, yesterday, while confirming the matron’s death as the first Nigerian fatality of EVD, state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris said the appeal became necessary in the wake of heightened anxiety over the threat posed by the Ebola virus which is transmitted from human-to-human by body contact.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Stressing that the female doctor who tested positive to the virus initially, is still alive, while six other contacts have since tested positive,  Idris, who outlined the move as one of the measures being taken by government to address the situation said:  “I seize this opportunity to appeal to Churches and Mosques to stop all religious gatherings, so as to prevent further spread of the virus .”  He explained that at such gatherings, sweating and body contacts were most likely to occur.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The appeal came on the heels of an announcement by the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, banning delegates from EVD-affected West African nations, from attending the church’s ongoing convention, which opened Monday night at the church’s Redemption Camp along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Addressing a capacity crowd at the convention, Adeboye expressed regret over the decision to bar members of the Church in the affected nations but prayed that God would soon arrest the situation.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The development came two days after a Nigerian female doctor tested positive to the Ebola virus.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Earlier, in Abuja, Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, while announcing the death of the nurse at a press briefing, said: “Yesterday (Tuesday), August 5, 2014, the first known Nigerian to die of the EVD was recorded and this was one of the nurses that attended to the Liberian. The other five cases are currently being treated at the isolation ward in Lagos.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “Nigeria has now recorded seven confirmed cases of Ebola virus. The first one was the index case – the imported case from Liberia of which the victim is now late.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “All the Nigerians diagnosed of the Ebola virus were primary contacts of the index case.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “The 24/7 Emergency Operation Centre which I intimated you of in my last press conference will be fully functional tomorrow (today).</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “It will be headed by Dr. Faisal Shuaibu as the Incident Manager.  He will later today (yesterday) lead a six-man inter-agency team drawn from National Primary Health Care Development Agency,  NPHCDA, the US CDC,  the WHO, UNICEF and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to Lagos to complete the setting up of the Centre.”</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The team includes medical personnel from the Lagos State Government and experts from federal hospitals in the Lagos area as well as the National Centre for Disease Control, NCDC.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Already, government has appointed a Director of Communication and Community Mobilization , Prof. O. Onajole, of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital. He will be based in Lagos.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Chukwu noted that government is embarking on recruiting additional health personnel to strengthen the team who are currently managing the situation in Lagos.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> He said there were plans to procure relevant equipment for management of the patients.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “We are making arrangements to procure isolation tents to quicken the pace of providing isolation wards in all the states of the federation and the Federal Capital Terrority.”</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Government is also setting up a special team to provide counselling and psychological support to patients, identified contacts and their families.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Two contacts in critical condition</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> In Lagos, the state government confirmed that two of the primary contacts who tested positive to EVD, are in critical condition. The government also announced life insurance cover for doctors and other health workers who volunteer to work with experts monitoring and testing suspected and confirmed cases of EVD.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Giving an update of the response in Lagos, Idris, who described the situation as extremely dire, explained that the late nurse died at 2:06 pm on Tuesday, making her the first Nigerian to have died of the deadly disease.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Further, he explained that the late nurse was admitted at a critical stage and was said to have had direct contact with the late Sawyer.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Urgent need for volunteer health workers</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Vanguard</span> gathered that presently, the state government is facing acute shortage of medical experts including doctors and health workers needed to attend to those that have been infected and those that will be isolated for monitoring.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “We need more hands, because we have moved from the stage of primary contacts to secondary contacts. More volunteers are urgently needed especially contact trackers and case management personnel.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “Government is willing to take care of such volunteers especially in the following areas- safety to personal health; life insurance cover and whatever genuine need/assurance that may also be required,” the commissioner stated.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Stressing that the situation is quite critical, Idris assured: “We will provide life insurance for any doctor, nurse and other expert that wants to work with isolated patients. We are tracing all the people that had contact not just with Sawyer, but those that had contacts with the health workers and others that have died.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “We need volunteers now, and this is needed urgently to assist in tracking the contacts and to manage those who were already in isolation. This is the only way we can give those who have the virus the opportunity to survive.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “We need doctors, nurses and environmental health workers. Because this is a serious issue, the Governor Babatunde Fashola administration has accepted to give whatever those whom I mentioned earlier demanded for including life insurance.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “I can assure them of safety, and we will put them through the entire necessary prerequisite for safety.  If we cannot provide the needed health workers within the country to manage the cases, foreigners will be unwilling to help.”</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Already, it was gathered that government has begun the process of  life insurance cover with an insurance company.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Explaining why more hands are needed urgently, Idris said 27 secondary contacts have been identified and addresses of others are being traced.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “It is a tedious task, because we will also be taking their blood samples for testing and we will be monitoring them.”</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Appealing to doctors to call off their strike, he said it will be morally unjustifiable for Nigeria to seek assistance from foreign medical practitioners when the country’s local doctors are unwilling to render services.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “We are appealing to the doctors on strike to resume work and set aside their grievances. No doubt this situation is a dire emergency and our health professionals must recognize that.  It will be morally unjustifiable for us to call for help from the international community if our own experts and doctors are not working.”</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cases so far</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> He explained that “of the 70 persons, results of five out of eight blood samples taken have been received with four testing positive while the fifth was negative, one died out of the eight, two critically ill and results of three still outstanding.”</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Medical</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">equipment</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Further, the state government called on businessmen not to hike prices of materials needed for health workers to carry out their operations in the course of managing victims of the virus. Materials such as gloves, decontamination equipment, chemicals and sanitizers are not expected to be cashed-in upon.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> On managing positive cases, he said the treatment given to the patient depends on the symptom being developed by the patient. He explained further that the treatment was supportive for the patients.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Call for vigilance</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Calling for vigilance, Idris reiterated:  “Once again I allay the fears of health workers who have the requisite expertise needed to manage these confirmed and probable cases. This is a call for vigilance as human-to-human transmission is only achieved by physical contact with a person who is acutely and gravely ill (fever being a key sign) from Ebola virus through body fluids such as blood, urine, stool, saliva, breast milk, semen, and vomitus.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “In Africa, infection has also occurred through handling of infected chimpanzees, monkeys, gorillas, fruit bats, antelopes and porcupines. No case of transmission by domestic animals has been reported.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Warning on</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> burials</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The state government has also urged the public to approach burial ceremonies and handling of corpses in line with recommendations of the World Health Organisation, WHO, for handling bodies of victims of EVD.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “Burial ceremonies where mourners including family members have direct contact with patients who died of Ebola have also played a role in the spread and direct contact with dead bodies should be minimized at this period, even as washing and burial /disposal of such bodies should be professionally handled with safety to personal health of handlers being a cardinal focus.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “We also count on the cooperation of the good people of Lagos State. In partnership with the Federal Government we may need to, in the course of taking decisions in the overriding interest of the public, institute measures that may be inconvenient to some people.”</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ebola Unit</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">at LASUTH</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> He explained that if government needs to bring suspected cases of Ebola to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, “we will do it because these are suspects and they cannot be left in the communities for even greater risks.  We are weighing all options now, he added.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Debunking rumours making the rounds, Idris explained that government is doing what is needed to save lives of the people already infected and also to stop the spread.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Evacuation of TB patients</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Idris said plans are on to evacuate tuberculosis patients receiving treatment at the Infectious Diseases Hospital in Yaba to another hospital in order to accommodate more suspected and isolated EVD cases.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “The TB patients at Mainland Hospital were protesting this morning but we appealed to them, that if they stay there they may be exposed and get infected.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “ If we need to evacuate any hospital to ensure that we contain this disease, we will do it. If we have to take suspected cases to LASUTH, we will do it. If we need to take decisions that will be inconvenient for some people but beneficial to the larger population, we will do it. Ebola is a highly infectious disease. We will do it to contain it.”</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em;">Confirmed contact</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> On why the primary contacts were heavily infected, he explained that initially the workers were not adequately kitted and the late Liberian victim was economical with the truth.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “We never knew that late Patrick (Sawyer) was already under surveillance in his country. It was later we gathered that he was already advised not to travel and the health workers were not adequately kitted.”</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Idris said that the government has applied the World Health Organization, WHO procedures to handling body of corpse who died of the virus.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em;">Minister briefs House</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Meanwhile, the Federal Government is awaiting the response of the request it made last night to the Centre for Disease Control, CDC, in the US, for the unapproved Ebola drug ZMapp to treat affected persons in Nigeria.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Describing the presence of Ebola as a national emergency, Minister of Health, Prof Chukwu , who appeared before the House of Representatives Committee on Health, stated that the fact that a Liberian victim of the disease, Mr. Patrick Sawyer could come and die in Nigeria meant that the virus was a global threat.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “This is a national emergency. Everyone in the world today is at risk. The experience of Nigeria opens the eyes of the world,” he said, noting that the research credited to the former chairman of INEC, Professor Maurice Iwu on bitter kola in the US was inconclusive and therefore could not be authenticated as a cure for the disease.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Also speaking at the hearing, the Director-General, Nigerian Center for Disease Control, Abdusalam Nasidi revealed that 70 Nigerians in the course of their official duties were suspected to have directly or indirectly had contact with the American-Liberian, Sawyer.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> He said there were 39 hospital contacts, nine laboratory scientists contact and 22 airport contacts. He said that the people were under strict surveillance.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">  <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em;">NANNM reacts</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Reacting to the development, erstwhile leader of the National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives, NANNM, Olufemi Rasheed Tonade said the association would not allow its members to sign a death warrant.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “The death of the nurse is quite unfortunate, pathetic and painful. This brings to the fore what we are saying about our governments and the health system. Nigerian government has not addressed basic needs in the health system.  As leaders of the people in the health industry, we will not allow government of Nigeria to deceive anybody that they have equipment. We have concluded that we are not going to sign a death warrant.  We believe that if government cannot resolve basic health needs, let alone Ebola which is a very serious health hazard that has shut down the whole of Liberia and about to shut down other West African countries.”</div> <span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 15px;">- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/ebola-now-national-emergency-health-minister/#sthash.iIqW5uew.dpuf</span></div>

Ebola now national emergency – Health Minister

L AGOS —  FOLLOWING the death of the matron that was one of the primary contacts of the late American-Liberian, Mr. Patrick Sawyer, who ...

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