The President of the Academy of Medical Sciences, Professor Oladapo Ashiru, has called for mandatory Ebola contact tracing for all travellers, regardless of their political or social status, and permanent disease surveillance facilities across Nigeria’s 774 local government areas.
Speaking during an interview with ARISE News on Wednesday, Ashiru warned that exempting influential individuals from airport screening protocols could undermine efforts to contain the disease.
“They must recognise this and they must make it mandatory for every single person, no VIP, going to the airport to have that form done,It should be for communicable diseases, and there should be installations across the local government, not even state, to recognise this and maintain it,” Ashiru said.
The professor said universal contact tracing was essential because Ebola could take between two and 21 days to manifest clinical signs and symptoms.
“For example, at the airport now, we must have temperature scanners, because
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