Nigeria is now reporting it's second case.
3 August 2014
By Oghogho Obayuwana, Chukwuma Muanya And Emeka Anuforo With Agency Reports
Abuja — "THE Ebola outbreak (click here) in the West African region remains uncontained with number of cases and deaths still increasing."
3 August 2014
By Oghogho Obayuwana, Chukwuma Muanya And Emeka Anuforo With Agency Reports
Abuja — "THE Ebola outbreak (click here) in the West African region remains uncontained with number of cases and deaths still increasing."
With these words, the World Health Organisation (WHO) at the weekend stressed that all the countries in the region remain at the risk of "importation" of the virus.
The organisation stressed that it had sent a team of experts to Lagos to work with the Federal and State Governments in putting in place necessary measures to contain the outbreak.
A statement from the body listed members of the team to include its regional and headquarters experts, made up of an epidemiologist and a case management specialist .
"With this assistance, WHO has since made available its guidelines and tools as well as use them to assist in training various categories of health workers on contact tracing, surveillance, laboratory diagnosis, Ebola case management, infection prevention and control and public health education using WHO Standard Operating Procedures, to support the country's efforts in containing further spread of Ebola virus," they noted...
