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Ebola: Market Associations Adopt Preventive Measures
As Panic heightens
over the outbreak and spread of the deadly Ebola Virus disease in Rivers State some market associations say they have taken measures to protect their members and the public against the disease.
Speaking to The Tide a member of the Mile I Market Association Rumuwoji Executives, Nelson Chukwuma said the Rumuji Mile I Market Association Executives have put in place a conducive non infectant market environment.
Chukwuma explained that some of the measures include the provisions of hand sanitiser and gloves in strategic points within the market for members of the public coming into the market for trading or purchasing of one item or the other.
He said the market leadership was working out modality of acquiring body scanners to be put at strategic points in the market, stressing that the market leadership was also in contact with the ministry of Health officials and other agencies to prevent the spread of the contamination of Ebola.
The Market leader explained that arrangement has also been made for doctors and nurses to be posted to the market for them to be on ground within the market premises.
Also, during a visit to the Town Market Creek Road, The Tide was told that the chairman of the Market Association was attending a meeting at the state ministry of Health.
But an official who claimed to be the “secretary” said the market’s leadership was not leaving any stone unturned put in measures for the prevention of the spread and contamination of the deadly Ebola virus within the market.
It will be recalled that Ebola spread to the state capital through the confirmation of the death of Dr Iyke Enenuo who died on August 22, having had primary contact with a Diplomat working with the Economic Community of West African State (ECOWAS) whose identify could not be ascertained.
Phillip Okparaji