Nigeria has made a contribution of $3.5m (574,874,061.52) to aid the fight against Ebola in West Africa, Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu said on Wednesday, October 8.
Chukwu
also said that 591 health practitioners had volunteered to go to
Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea to contribute to efforts against the
disease.
The minister reportedly disclosed this
while speaking to State House correspondents at a Federal Executive
Council meeting which had President Goodluck Jonathan in attendance.
He said:
“I
informed the United Nations General Assembly that the President has
already directed the Federal Ministry of Health to train and send health
personnel to these three countries in the area of special laboratory
work to strengthen capacity in those countries.
“I
also informed them that as part of Nigeria’s contributions to the
international team that will be set up to tackle Ebola Virus Disease in
those countries, already Nigeria volunteers from different health
professions have been registering with us, willing to join the
international force that will go to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea to
help out with the containment.
“As of now, 591 Nigerians have already registered with us in three registries we opened in Lagos, Abuja Port Harcourt.”
Nigeria
has contained the Ebola outbreak and will receive an official clearance
from the World Health Organization on October 20 if no new cases are
recorded before then.
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