He also announced a N50 million support to First Consultant Hospital, Obalende, Lagos State, where the index case, Patrick Sawyer died, to assist it bounce back to business
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The state government has also appealed for emotional and practical support for people living with Schizophrenia, a long term disorder of the brain, which affects how a person thinks, feels and acts
The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, who made this appeal during an awareness walk and a road show to commemorate this year’s world mental health day, noted that the roles to be played by friends and relations in the care of an individual with schizophrenia cannot be overemphasized
The Commissioner for Tourism and Inter-Governmental Relations, Disun Holloway, made this assertion while meeting with representatives of some large hotels in the state who were in his office to rub minds on how to develop the hospitality business in Lagos
Idris said though the last case under observation would be discharged later on Thursday, the state had yet to be free from the threats of EVD in spite of its successful containment
NMA and NUT had earlier opposed the resumption date
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The minister’s position came a few minutes after the Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, announced on Wednesday that the country had recorded five new cases of the EVD
Idris, at the conference, eulogised the late senior doctor of First Consultant Hospital, Dr. Ameyo Adadevoh, who prevented the index case, the late Liberian-American, Patrick Sawyer, from leaving the hospital after he was diagnosed of the EVD
The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, who disclosed this after confirming the death of the Liberian on Friday, said the hospital environment in which the deceased died would also be sanitised
Idris, who disclosed this in a statement in Lagos on Wednesday, also advised health workers to be at alert, wear personal protective equipment, observe universal basic precautions when attending to suspected or confirmed cases, and report same to their Local Government Area or Ministry of Health immediately
The Chairman of the forum, Rasheed Bamishe, announced the suspension at a congress organised by the forum
Deaths have been recorded in Plateau and Sokoto States as a result of cholera infection
He likened the new virus to the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome that ravaged the world some years back, adding that vulnerable people, including the elderly, pregnant women, children, chronic lung infection patients, stroke patients and cancer victims are more susceptible to the Coronavirus disease
The state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, who gave the warning in Lagos on Monday, noted that the ways Coronavirus is spread has not been extensively studied but confirmed that it could be transmitted easily from one person to another through coughing and sneezing, close contact such as touching or shaking the hands of an infected person and touching one’s mouth, nose or eyes after touching contaminated objects or surfaces