NMA Partners Lagos as Deadly Ebola Virus Spreads to Nigeria
The Ebola virus which has already killed 660 people across West Africa has spread to Nigeria after a Liberian man boarded a plane to the country.
He managed to board the flight despite of having a high fever. Once on the plane he vomited, before dying in Nigeria.
Upon arrival in the country’s most populous metropolis-Lagos, home to 21 million people, the 40-year-old had been moved to an isolation ward.
The death marks a new and alarming cross-border development in a disease that has spiralled into the world's biggest epidemic, spreading across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Patrick Sawyer, a Liberian diplomat had recently lost his sister to Ebola in Liberia, health officials said. Authorities are now investigating anyone who may have come into contact with him.
Nigerian health minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said it was the first case of Ebola to be confirmed in Nigeria since the start of the current outbreak in the region.
Meanwhile, the Nigeria Medical Association, Lagos Chapter, on Friday said it will partner the Lagos State government to prevent outbreak of Ebola Virus in the state.
The NMA Chairman, Dr. Tayo Ojo, made this known at the inaugural briefing of the newly elected executives of the association in Lagos.
On the ongoing NMA strike which commenced on July 1, Ojo said this was not in any way related to additional wage demand, rather to draw the Federal Government’s attention to the problems in the sector.
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Upon arrival in the country’s most populous metropolis-Lagos, home to 21 million people, the 40-year-old had been moved to an isolation ward.
The death marks a new and alarming cross-border development in a disease that has spiralled into the world's biggest epidemic, spreading across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Patrick Sawyer, a Liberian diplomat had recently lost his sister to Ebola in Liberia, health officials said. Authorities are now investigating anyone who may have come into contact with him.
Nigerian health minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said it was the first case of Ebola to be confirmed in Nigeria since the start of the current outbreak in the region.
Meanwhile, the Nigeria Medical Association, Lagos Chapter, on Friday said it will partner the Lagos State government to prevent outbreak of Ebola Virus in the state.
The NMA Chairman, Dr. Tayo Ojo, made this known at the inaugural briefing of the newly elected executives of the association in Lagos.
On the ongoing NMA strike which commenced on July 1, Ojo said this was not in any way related to additional wage demand, rather to draw the Federal Government’s attention to the problems in the sector.
NMA Partners Lagos as Deadly Ebola Virus Spreads to Nigeria
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