The Federal Government on Thursday inaugurated the Presidential Task Force on Ebola Virus Disease Preparedness at the State House, Abuja.
It is also committed to sustaining Nigeria’s current zero-case status while positioning the country to play a leading role among African nations in epidemic preparedness and response.
Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, revealed this in a statement signed on Thursday titled ‘Federal Government Inaugurates Presidential Task Force On Ebola Preparedness, Targets Zero Ebola Case.’
Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, who chairs the task force, said the government was intensifying preventive measures to ensure that Nigeria’s present Ebola-free status remained unchanged.
He said the country would draw on hard lessons from the 2014 outbreak in which a carrier arrived in Lagos and triggered a national scramble that nearly overwhelmed public health systems before it was contained.
“We inaugurated the committee today on
This post was originally published on this site.
