Ebola: FCTA adopts preventive measures
— 24th May 2018
NAN
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) says it has taken proactive measures to create public awareness on prevention of Ebola disease.
The Director of Public Health in the Health and Human Services Secretariat, FCTA, Dr Humphrey Okoroukwu, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Thursday.
Okoroukwu explained that there was no Ebola in Nigeria but the outbreak of the disease had occurred in Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) and won’t wait until there was case in Nigeria before taking necessary actions.
NAN reports that Ebola had claimed 27 lives since it was reported in DR Congo and WHO had warned that the 2018 outbreak has been complicated because it involved rural and urban areas which could raise chances of spread both nationally and internationally.
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