Nigeria can contain Ebola – NCDC

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has said that though Nigeria is not afloat prepared for a imaginable Ebola outbreak, the state inactive has the capableness to incorporate the microorganism if it enters.

The Director-General of the NCDC, Dr Jide Idris, made this known on Friday during a property briefing successful Lagos amid renewed concerns implicit Ebola cases reported successful parts of East Africa.

He admitted that Nigeria’s preparedness is not astatine 100 per cent but stressed that existing systems tin inactive halt the dispersed of the illness if detected early.

He said it is not imaginable for immoderate country, including adjacent developed nations specified arsenic the United States, to beryllium afloat prepared for an outbreak.

However, helium assured that if Ebola enters Nigeria, the state would beryllium capable to incorporate it utilizing the existent cognition and effect systems already successful place.

He said, “We person already classified the hazard of Ebola being imported into Nigeria arsenic precocious due to the fact that of accrued planetary travel, colonisation movement, and our porous borders.”

According to him, surveillance has been strengthened astatine cardinal introduction points crossed the country, particularly planetary airports.

“For Nigeria, our main absorption is connected points of entry. What we person done is fortify surveillance astatine these ...