Former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Maurice Iwu, on Thursday in Abuja lauded the role played by Dr. Goodluck Jonathan while he was in office as president in funding research into the Ebola scourge, leading to its control in the country.
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The ministry said health workers have already administered therapeutic treatments to more than 150 Ebola patients since August in an effort to contain the worst of Democratic Republic of Congo’s 10 outbreaks of the hemorrhagic fever since 1976.
The Director General of WHO, Tedros Ghebreyesus, and UN Peacekeeping chief, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, sated this after a joint mission to the epicentre of the epidemic, around the city of Beni close to the Ugandan border.
The World Health Organisation and the UN Children’s Fund confirmed on Friday, saying they have stepped up community-based efforts to tackle the Ebola disease in the eastern DRC
The office of the UN High Commission for Refugees warned that rebel violence in eastern DRC was escalating inside the vast country’s Ebola-hit North Kivu province, putting millions at risk
As of Thursday, the case count had reached more than 100, with 103 confirmed cases including 63 deaths, according to Dr. Peter Salama, deputy director general of emergency preparedness and response at the WHO.
The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said no fewer than 103 cases of Ebola have been reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The outbreak of the deadly virus began shortly after the country’s government in June declared an end to another outbreak – in the west of the country – and lauded those involved for managing to swiftly contain the spread of the disease.
A statement by Boade Akinola, Director Media and Public Relations of the Ministry, said the minister made the unscheduled visit on Monday.
Speaking in Geneva at the World Health Assembly, Dr. Peter Salama, WHO Deputy Director-General, who heads Emergency Preparedness and Response, said there were several reasons why the current outbreak – which has claimed 27 lives since it was declared on May 8 – had yet to be contained.
Addressing the Assembly, the Director General of WHO, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said strengthening the health systems everywhere was important to prevention of future outbreaks of Ebola and other diseases.
One of the deaths occurred in the provincial capital of Mbandaka, according to a daily bulletin.
The denial followed social media reports that claimed an Ebola outbreak in Ghana and that the health authority was trying to suppress the information.
“In total since the start of the epidemic, there have been 45 cases of hemorrhagic fever, including 10 suspected cases, 21 probable cases, and 14 confirmed cases,” the ministry said in a statement on Friday.
The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, made this known while briefing the press on the current status of Lassa Fever in Nigeria and the outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of in Congo.
A statement issued by Fortune Obi, the National Public Relations Officer of the association, said the soot was responsible for the thick black smoke that had covered the entire city.
This was just hours after the National Electoral Commission announced his victory in a tight run-off poll
The NIPRD Director-General, Prof. Karniyus Gamaniel, said this while presenting the score card of his eight-year tenure (2009 to 2017) in Abuja on Friday
The NIPRD Director-General, Prof. Karniyus Gamaniel, said this while presenting the score card of his eight-year tenure (2009 to 2017) in Abuja on Friday.
The East African nation last suffered a Marburg outbreak, which has a high mortality rate, in 2014. Marburg is from the same family of viruses as Ebola, which killed thousands in West Africa in 2014.