FG Offers Sierra Leone N42billion Worth Of Ebola Drugs

Nigerian government has offered drugs and supplies worth more than $249,000 (about N42billion) to Sierra Leone, the Ministry of Health said on Thursday.
According to the health ministry’s spokeswoman, Ayo Adesugba, this offering was made apart from a $3.5m donation promised by President Goodluck Jonathan toward the fight against Ebola scourge in the West Africa sub-region.
“Nigeria made the donation at the request of the government of Sierra Leone,” the statement said.
Adesugba also noted that Nigeria had already mobilised and trained over 600 health workers as volunteers to support the containment effort in affected countries within the region under the leadership of the Economic Community Of West African States.

It would be recalled that Nigeria was recently declared Ebola-free by the World Health Organization (WHO), having recorded no new cases of the highly- contagious disease after six weeks since 31 August.

The health ministry stated that it was in this light that Nigeria was willing to share its experiences and offered support to other countries in terms of building necessary capacity, management of information and actual case management in their efforts to contain the Ebola Virus Disease.
The Federal Government led by Jonathan has ascribed its success in containing the Ebola virus disease to responsive governance, driven by appropriate political will, a clear leadership role, and strong multi-sectoral teamwork.
The government said an all-inclusive national response to the Ebola outbreak was crucial to the African nation’s rapid containment of the disease.
The WHO had announced on Wednesday that nearly 5,000 people have been killed in the latest outbreak of the Ebola virus disease.
Meanwhile the situation in Sierra Leone , Guinea and Liberia already poses danger of humanitarian catastrophe despite countries and individuals donating money to help the affected regions battle the epidemic.
It was reported this week that thousands of hungry citizens of Sierra Leone had to violate quarantine to search for food, as some areas could not be reached by aid agencies.
Two Nigerians were reported to have been diagnosed with the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone recently.