More commendations have trailed the successful management of
Ebola Virus Disease in Nigeria.
However,
health officials want people to celebrate but to remain cautious, and abide by
the precautionary measures even as Nigeria borders are open to all and sundry.
Even the
President Dr Good Luck Jonathan also cautioned Nigerians to be wary of Ebola
despite the WHO decision.
In Edo state
one can not remember if the state Government bought of distributed any Ebola
prevention Kits outside setting up a committee.
In less than
a week after WHO decision on Nigeria’s Ebola status , the tent donated by the
chapter of NMA to the Edo State owned Central Hospital has been abandoned with
heaps of refuse beside it.
Some
Respondent in Benin on Ebola Free Nigeria say the pronouncement by the world’s
apex health institution was a welcome development in the country adding that though the average Nigerian is relieved of the phobia of
contracting the disease more need to be
done to sustain the campaign
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Another set of respondents who were elated by
the speedy containment of the dreaded virus, called on federal government to
tackle poverty and other illnesses faced by average Nigerian.
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You will
recall that the World Health Organisation, WHO, declared Nigeria Ebola free on
Monday after a forty two day period without new case of Ebola in the country.
More than
4,500 people have died and nearly 10,000 have been infected with the
haemorrhagic fever, most of them in West Africa, since the start of the year.
WRT/Nosakhare/CHRISTO
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