Hehehehee...will the request ever come ? THE
Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu on Monday said there had
been no formal request from the United States for Nigeria’s assistance
in combating the Ebola Virus disease.
“As at Friday really, there was no formal
request by the United States, for assistance in the containment of
Ebola Virus Disease”, the minister, who spoke through his Special
Assistant (Media and Communications), Mr. Dan Nwomeh, said during an
enquiry by our correspondent on Monday in Abuja.
The US had last week recorded its first
case of EVD in circumstances similar to the importation of the virus to
Nigeria by the Liberian-born American Diplomat, late Mr. Patrick Sawyer.
Thomas Duncan, the first person to have
been diagnosed with EVD in the US, is said to be fighting for his life
in a hospital in Dallas.
Based on the feat recorded by the Federal
Government in the containment of EVD in Lagos and Port Harcourt,
speculations had been rife that the President Barak Obama’s
administration would seek the intervention of Nigeria.
The EVD case in US was recorded in Dallas, and was from a patient who had reportedly flown in from Liberia.
A statement from the Director of Centre
for Disease Control and the Texas Health Department, Dr. Tom Frieden,
said the patient had been hospitalised while contact tracing had
commenced
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