Ebola Outbreak
Lagos To Send Health Workers To Sierra Leone
Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola had said that the state would
soon deploy health workers to Sierra Leone to aid in the fight against
Ebola
Lagos State governor, Babatunde Fashola.
Lagos State is set to deploy health workers to join the fight against Ebola in Sierra Leone, Governor Babatunde Fashola has said.
Fashola stated this while speaking at a programme held in Ikeja to commemorate his 2700th day in office.
The
governor said that the health workers had aided in the containment of
the disease in the state and so they were being sent to replicate their
successes in the neighbouring country.
Fashola
added further that Nigeria won't be completely safe from the disease
until it had been conquered in all the affected countries.
He said:
“Lagos is free from Ebola, Nigeria is free from Ebola. But that does not mean there cannot be another case.”
“For as long as people are moving from countries to countries, the risk of infections is still there."
“That
is why I appeal to the Federal Government to continue to scrutinise
people travelling into Nigeria from land, sea and air from regions where
the problem is still ravaging."
“That is why some
of the things the commissioner for health will be announcing very soon
is the arrangements we are making to send some of our health workers and
volunteers to go and help out in Sierra Leone."
“That is the only way we ,the whole of Africa and the World can be safe.”
The governor also announced the appointment of Dr Oluwakemi Sekoni as Chief Scientific Adviser to aid the formulation of strategies against the disease in the state.
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