A team of Nigeria medics helping Sierra Leone battle its scourge of Ebola virus disease has just rounded off its five month long tour of duty, with not of its members being infected by the dreaded disease.

 

 The one hundred and eleven Nigerians have be in Sierra Leone since December 2014 ri help the government and people to eradicate the deadly Ebola virus, which claimed thousands of lives since its incursion in May 2014.

 

 The had been in Sierra Leone under the auspices of the Africa Union (AU).

 

 Nigeria was one of the first countries to respond to S Leone's President Ernest Koroma's call for assistance in the fight as she provided not only financial assistance but sent in medical personnel of various disciplines to assist doctors in that country in the fight against the deadly virus.

 

 On arrival the Nigerian Ebola fighters were quickly drafted to different Ebola treatment centers across Sierra Leone's northern and western regions.

 

 On farewell visits to Sierra Leone's ministries of health and sanitation, as well as foreign affairs and international cooperation leader of the Nigerian team, Dr Musa Abdullahi said they cared for 166 Ebola patients, out of which figure 106 survived, nothing that the respective treatment centers where tea,-members worked recorded the higher number of Ebola cases in the country.

 

 

Similarly, the Nigerian team also conducted over1, 000 Ebola virus test in their mobile lab and disinfected more than 1,000 quarantine homes, Abdullahi also said, nothing that they had further been enriched by the experience to fight any deadly virus in the future.

 

 On the secret of their success, Adullahi traced it largely to their introduction of psychosocial therapy in treating Ebola patients which proved successful, and that they also backed this strategy up with effective disinfections and quarantine of homes and labeling of graves so that family members can trace their loved ones.

 

 He expressed their sincere appreciation to the government and people of Sierra Leone for their warm hospitality during the course of their assignment in the country. He thumbed up Sierra Leone as a good country to do business, in, noting some of them may return to do business.

 

 Speaking of behalf of the government and people of Sierra Leone, the country's Minister of Health and Sanitation Dr Abubakarr Fogannah expressed his satisfaction with the Nigerian

 

by Marthin- Luther C. King