Lagos To Send Health Workers To Sierra Leone

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 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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Posted by Donatus Joshua at 02:56