U.S. To Establish Health Centres For Ebola In Nigeria

 
The American government has promised to collaborate with Nigeria in containing the spread of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease.

The U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr James Entwistle, told reporters in Abuja on Monday, after a close door meeting with Nigeria’s Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, that his government would partner with Nigeria in providing and managing Ebola emergency treatment centres across the country.
The Ambassador was, however, not specific as to whether or not, the American government would supply the experimental drug, which is currently being used in the United state, to Nigeria.
Meanwhile, Professor Chukwu said the Nano Silver experimental drug for Ebola, which was provided by a Nigerian scientist was not used on the Nigerian medical doctor that survived the virus.
According to him, the use of the Nano Silver drug had been temporarily suspended for now.
Last week, the World Health Organization (WHO) gave approval for the use of untested drugs in the treatment of Ebola patient, in an attempt to contain the disease it said was vastly underestimated. It said: “It is a public health emergency of international concern”.
WHO also said that extraordinary measures were needed to contain the disease that has claimed over 1100 lives in West Africa since it broke out this year.
The Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan, declared the outbreak of the disease a National Emergency and had approved an intervention fund of 1.9 billion Naira for the contain the spread.
Ebola Virus was first detected in a Liberian-American man, Patrick Sawyer, who flew into Lagos, Nigeria and died on July 25.
Since his death, three more deaths have been recorded, all of which were persons that had primary contact with Late Sawyer before his death.

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