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Ebola in DRC: FG orders immediate surveillance at airports, borders

by The Eagle Online
May 9, 2018
in Featured, R&D Health
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The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday directed the Federal Ministry of Health to step up surveillance activities against Ebola Virus Disease in the country.
The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, stated this when he briefed State House correspondents at the end of the council’s meeting chaired by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The minister said the council’s directive followed the reported reemergence of the disease in Democratic Republic of Congo.
He said that the council had ordered that steps must be taken to keep the Ebola outbreak away from Nigeria, saying that part of the new measures to be taken would include screening of passengers coming into the country.
Adewole said: “Of course of great concern to the Federal Executive Council is the outbreak of Ebola in DR Congo.
“As you might be aware, over the last one month, DRC recorded 19 suspected cases of viral hemorrhagic fever and lost 16 of the cases.
“But what is also particularly important was that on Monday, blood samples from five patients in the DRC, particularly in a particular district in DRC, two of the five cases, Ebola was actually confirmed.
“And, FEC has now directed the federal ministry of health to step up emergency surveillance activities at all land and airport borders, so that we can actually keep Nigerians safe.
“What we will do is to set up an emergency operation centre which will be chaired by Dr. Babasanya, who actually led our efforts in Liberia and Sierra Leone and Guinea during the outbreak in 2014.
“Not only that, we will be screening incoming passengers, particularly passengers from DRC and neigbouring countries.
“We will also ensure we step up all activities, screening people coming in so that we will not be caught unawares.”
According to him, the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control will also consider sending some team to DRC as part of building capacity for managing the outbreak.
Adewole reassured Nigerians that the Federal Government was concerned about the outbreak and would continue to do everything possible to keep the country safe from the outbreak.
The minister also said that the ministry presented an update on the state of public health in Nigeria at the FEC meeting.
He said: “We reported on the situation with Lassa fever and declared that we are declaring the emergency phase of Lassa fever outbreak over.
“Essentially, that implies that the emergency operating center would be stood down but that instead of meeting everyday throughout the country, they will now meet once a week.
“They will still continue surveillance so that if there are cases anywhere in the country we can quickly dictate it and then treat it appropriately.”
On the ongoing industrial action by the Joint Health Sector Union, Adewole stated that negotiations were on over the strike in the health sector.
He said: “Negotiations are still on with JOHESU and the Minister of Labour is leading the negotiation and we expect that we will conclude on all issues very soon.”
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, who also spoke on the outcome of the meeting, outlined the benefits of the recent visit of President Buhari to the United States.
According to him, President Buhari is one of the strongest brands Nigeria has, going by the level of invitations he has been receiving from world leaders.
Onyeama said: “One of the strongest brands that this country has is Mr. President. By the level of invitations he has been receiving.
“All the major Heads of States want to meet with him. I think this is recognition of the weight of his person, his integrity and the leadership qualities.
“This is something we as a country have to be extremely proud of and we saw that when he went to the United States and the respect Mr. Trump has for him.
“He was extremely focused during that visit on Nigeria’s interest. He wanted the U.S. to help him and this country achieve those priority areas – security, corruption and revamping the economy.
“U.S. is on our side on the fight against insecurity, training and sharing of information.
“We secure the commitment of U.S. to repatriate large sum of looted money in the country.”

Tags: Ebola virusFederal Executive CouncilFederal Ministry of HealthProf. Isaac AdewoleYemi Osinbajo
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