The state Ministry of Health and Human Development stated Thursday that the Ebola preventive and mitigating measures embrace activation of the state Rapid Response Team and Emergency Operations Centre.
The ministry, in a press assertion signed by its Information Officer, Abubakar Mohammed, additionally stated the state has activated its infectious illness centre.
“These proactive measures are geared toward strengthening early detection, immediate reporting, efficient coordination, and speedy response to any suspected case,” the ministry acknowledged.
It defined that the state’s Rapid Response Team and Emergency Operations Centre would coordinate actions, strengthen inter-agency collaboration, and guarantee well timed, organised response to any suspected Ebola case.
“All illness surveillance officers and notification focal individuals throughout the state’s 21 native authorities areas have been placed on excessive alert, to accentuate illness monitoring and instantly report any suspected case,” the ministry acknowledged.
It defined additional that the activated infectious illness centre of the state would help evaluation, isolation and administration of suspected instances, in addition to deal with preparations for an infection prevention and management and affected person referral.
According to the ministry, a statewide public sensitisation marketing campaign would start instantly to teach residents concerning the Ebola virus: its mode of transmission, signs, and significance of immediate reporting and looking for correct care.
The authorities urged calm among the many residents because it strives to recover from the Ebola risk, urging them to, on their very own, help prevention measures by practising correct hand hygiene, and avoiding contact with blood and different fluids from anybody suspected of getting Ebola.
DAILY POST studies that on Tuesday, October 20, well being officers confirmed an imported case of the Bundibugyo pressure of the Ebola virus into Nigeria; the affected person being a lady who travelled from Uganda to Abuja earlier on October 3, 2026, and developed signs on October 7, and was identified after she sought care, following which authorities recognized and positioned dozens of shut contacts beneath medical surveillance.
Earlier in historical past, Nigeria skilled a serious epidemic in 2014, when the West African Ebola outbreak hit Nigeria. On July 23, 2014, the primary case was declared in Lagos after an contaminated traveller arrived from Liberia.
The battle in opposition to it was intense, nevertheless, and by October 20, 2014, the World Health Organization formally declared the nation Ebola-free after it was capable of stop it from reaching past Lagos and Rivers State the place 20 instances and eight deaths had been confirmed.
