Ebola: Expert Tasks Public On Precautionary Measures

Former Governor of Adamawa State, Mr Bala Ngillari (right), sympathising with a victim of the recent Jimeta Market bomb blast at the Federal Medical Centre in Yola, recently.

A medical expert has
called on the public to maintain adequate personal and environmental hygiene to prevent relapse of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the country and states.
A specialist in Family Medicine, Dr Simeon Berewariso who made the call in  a chat with The Tide in Port Harcourt said the call became necessary following the reported cases of the resurgence of EVD in some neighbouring West African countries like Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Berewariso said that though the EVD case has died down in the past eight months, there was still the need for vigilance and observation of all rules that guid  non-contraction of the  disease.
While noting with dismay the lackadaisical attitudes of Nigerians towards such calls, Berewariso maintained  that such manners would not be of help in avoiding the disease and stressed the need for quick response.
He said “the problem with us Nigerians is that we only act at the dying minute. I do know that there are some whom the Ebola scare had driven into a conscious  observation of personal hygiene, yet there are still a lot of others to which it never made any difference and still for others, the rules have gone extinct. This is a call of reawakening so that we or our friends and relatives are not named among the victims of the resurfaced Ebola Virus Disease”.
“The schools, churches, public and private organiSations should reintroduce the compulsory hand washing  and temperature checks in order to check victims and spread of the EVD”, he stated
It would be recalled that the Federal Government, last Tuesday announced the resurface of the Ebola Virus Disease in Liberia urging Nigerians to remain calm as the ministry was reactivating its response mechanism and increasing the level of its alert.

Lady Godknows Ogbulu