Hajj: Bauchi Pilgrims to undergo Ebola, Meningitis screening

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File Photo: Health officials takes the body temperature of an Ukrainian worker on the MV Pintail cargo ship, as they check for signs of the Ebola virus at Apapa Port
All intending pilgrims for the 2015 Hajj operations to Saudi Arabia from Bauchi State would undergo screening for the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), meningitis and Lassa fever.
Dr. Zailani Isa, the Chief Medical Director, Bauchi State Specialist Hospital, disclosed this to newsmen on Monday in Bauchi.
Isa said that the screening was to ascertain the health statuses of the intending pilgrims before they embarked on the pilgrimage.
The CMD recalled that Nigeria had been …Read More

Source:: PM Newspaper