Health
Ebola: Gov’t orders ports officials to intensify surveillance
Nigerian Government has ordered port, health service officials and other applicable agencies at the points of entry to Nigeria to intensify surveillance towards ensuring that all travelers coming into the country are properly screened.
The Director, Media and Public Relations, Mrs. Boade Akinola, Federal Ministry of Health, made this known in an announcement issued on Friday in Abuja.
She stated that the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Mr. Abdulaziz Mashi, had issued the directive in Lagos while reviewing health facilities at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.
The permanent secretary, as well as some directors from the ministry, including the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), examined the entire health facilities.
She also added that the review was to determine the level of readiness in case of an emergency following the rumor of Ebola threats in Lagos.
Abdulaziz Mashi, however, noted that the “Thermal Cameras” used to screen all incoming travelers into the country are functioning flawlessly.
He, then, reiterated the Federal Government’s pledge to increase the number of cameras and deploy more manpower due to the heavy traffic at the airport.
He revealed that “more doctors, nurses and other health administrators will be sent to the port health services at International Airports for regular activities.”
The permanent secretary applauded the efforts of the Lagos State Government on readiness and surveillance system to curb the Ebola virus.
He further stated that the ministry and Lagos State Ministry of Health had been working together to prevent the importation of any disease into the country and thus called for continuous cooperation.
Meanwhile, the Federal Government described as false, the news circulating on social media networks, of a positive case of Ebola Virus Disease in the country.
More so, the Federal Ministry of Health, therefore, advised the public to neglect the rumor and also discourage the circulation of any unconfirmed information.
The ministry then said that since the reports of the outbreak of EVD in the Democratic Republic of Congo is confirmed, sensitive surveillance had been constant at various points of entry to prevent entry into Nigeria.
The Health Ministry in Egypt has confirmed the first case of the deadly Coronavirus. The authorities made this disclosure on Friday 14th February in a press release. They said the World Health Organization has been informed and the patient is in isolation for monitoring and treatment.
The patient’s nationality was not given. However, Egypt is the 28th country in the world to record Coronavirus and the first in Africa.
So, over 64,000 cases of the Coronavirus have been diagnosed around the world and 1,363 persons have been confirmed dead since its outbreak in Wuhan, China
Health
Nigerian And Other Foreign Nationals Nabbed In India For Promising To Sell Kidneys To Over 200 People
The police in Bengaluru on Sunday nabbed a gang of six which include two Sudanese nationals and a Nigerian. They were, therefore, arrested for duping over 200 persons promising them to sell or buy kidneys online.
So they claimed to have been authorized by the WHO and had wrongly used the name of a hospital and a reputed medical doctor to deceive people seeking kidney transplants.
Those arrested are; Jatin Kumar, 25, Kami Ranjan, 21, from Bommanahalli, Herendra Tripura, 25, from Tripura, Marwan Faisal, 27, Sudan, Ahmed Ismail, 24, Sudan, Esene Lovely, 29, Nigeria
So, they were arrested by tracing the mobile numbers listed on their website after a doctor in a private hospital; Dr. Shafiq M.M complained.
Also, the police recovered ATM, account details, and SIM cards and cellphones after a search was carried out.
Also, it was also gathered that the names of reputable doctors were mentioned to convince their victims. Further, they collected money ranging from Rs 50,000 to Rs 60,000 pretending to issue insurance and register over 200 people.
However, the Nigerian, Esene Lovely, Ismail, and Marwan have overstayed their visas in India.
The release of a video showing a Nigerian father refusing medical assistance for his sick daughter, precious, has brought about many outrageous statements. The father claimed that his church, Jehovah’s Witness is against the transfusion of blood.
Harrison Gwamnishu, the activist who shared the video has met with the girl’s parent in Sapele. Precious, who is suffering from Hydrocephalus might need a blood transfusion if she undergoes surgery.
The father said he agrees to medical help but will never consent to blood transfusion to be done on his 1 year and 7 months old daughter.
”We in Jehovah’s witnesses, we don’t take blood. I would not want to transfuse blood into the child. We will not accept a blood transfusion. If in the course of surgery they would transfuse blood in the child, we would not want that. I don’t want my baby to die but that is our faith” the father said
