The federal government has summoned all the 36 state Commissioners for Health, including the FCT, to an emergency meeting in Abuja over the outbreak of Ebola.
The minister of health for state, Dr Khaliru Hassan , who disclosed this yesterday in Abuja, said the council of health meeting comprising the commissioners have become imperative to intimate the states on the measure to take to prevent further outbreak or spread to other states.
Also, the minister of health, Prof. Christian Onyebuchi Chukwu and the minister of information, Labaran Maku, are going to Lagos to pay a courtesy visit to the Lagos State government and inspect facilities and efforts made to control the outbreak of Ebola.
Following the inauguration of a committee which include the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, the agency has called for a one-day sensitisation meeting with chief executive officers of state primary health care development agency, board and zonal coordinators.
Meanwhile, the Liberian ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Al-Hassan Conteh, has decried the rising spate of harassment and stereotyping being meted out against his citizens because of the particular case of the Liberian man, Patrick Sawyer who brought Ebola virus into Nigeria.
Ambassador Conteh was speaking in response to the Nigerian Health Minister; Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu’s commendation of the Nigerian press for exhibiting statesmanship and responsibility in the reportage of the Ebola Virus.
He said, ‘the attention of our embassy has been brought to several cases of harassment on Liberians based on stereotype and collective guilt. I think it is important we indicate in our campaigns that association does not mean causation.”
‘That the index case is from Liberia does not mean that all Liberians in Nigeria are infected with Ebola.’
But Chukwu has declared that the whole world is in danger because of Ebola.
He said ‘indeed we have an emergency at hand, that to us could be a national emergency, but to me, it is a global emergency. We are in danger; all of us are in danger.’
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