21 Suspected Cases Of Ebola Reported In Enugu According to the Federal government of Nigeria

Why am I not surprised at this report. In truth, without being forward, I thought very much about this with regards to my brothers and sisters from the east . I don't know of any Nigeria tribe that is more represented around the world in the area of business and trade like those from the east. The report I once got from a friend who traveled to Liberia a long time ago was that ,there are more than enough easterners from Nigeria in Liberia. It's the same around the world. The Igbos believe more in business than saying sir to any one. With the outbreak of Ebola, my heart went out to this ones.  I hope it does not get really serious in that region.....

After a Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting on Wednesday, the Minister of Information, Mr Labaran Maku, told reporters that one of the nurses, who had contact with the index patient, late Patrick Sawyer, had traveled to Enugu State contrary to instructions and had had contact with the 21 persons.According to Mr Maku, 198 Nigerians have been traced to have contacted the virus. While 177 are in Lagos, 21 persons in Enugu are being watched.The FEC devoted this week’s meeting to the efforts being made to combat the Ebola Virus which entered Nigeria some 23 days ago and had been declared a National Emergency.At the meeting, the Minister of Health, Dr Onyebuchi Chukwu, told the council that Nigerians had been on the alert even before late Sawyer entered Lagos with the virus.He told reporters that he was in touch with all the Commissioners for Health and that the Governors of the 36 states and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory had been called for a meeting with the President, an indication that the government was taking the case serious.He said a committee had been set up to handle the claims by many Nigerians that they have a cure for the ailment and called on Nigerians not to panic, as the government was in touch with the rest of the world on the possible cure for the disease.The Nigerian government had requested for an untested drug, Zmapp, believed to be efficient in the treatment of Ebola virus from the United States but had not gotten any concrete response.On Tuesday, the World Health Organization supported the use of untested drugs for the treatment of the disease, which the Nigerian government said its outbreak was a National Emergency.As part of efforts to contain the disease, which had claimed three lives in Lagos State, President Goodluck Jonathan had set up an intervention plan with 1.9 billion Naira approved for the control of the disease.The Federal Government had urged those who had primary contact with the index patient to report themselves so that they could be quarantined.Source Channels Tv