The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr Jide Idris, has said the ₦100,000 weekly support for primary contacts of the recent Ebola case in the country was not originally budgeted for, explaining that the assistance was introduced on compassionate grounds.
The NCDC Chief stated this during an interview on Channels Television programme, Politics Today, on Monday night.
He said that the individuals placed in quarantine were taken away from their normal lives for public health reasons, making it necessary for authorities to provide for their basic needs.
“That was not budgeted for. Those people who were in the quarantine area were people who never planned to be there. We took them out of their comfort zones; we put them there for public health reasons, so we are responsible for their feeding, accommodation,” Idris said.
He explained that some of the quarantined individuals had complained about
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