This week hasn't been a cheering one in terms of news updates et al. Various airplane crashes, worsening insurgencies and conflicts, bomb blasts here and there. I decided to listen to the news just once a day unlike my usual and consistent tab-keeping of the latest news!
I shivered as I saw tweets about a possible case of Ebola virus in Lagos State. God forbid I thought to myself. My fear was confirmed when I heard it from Ijeoma on Channels Newstrack at 8pm!
What is it with Ebola you wonder?
Here are some scary facts: 90 percent of people who are diagnosed as having Ebola virus do not recover from it. They die!!!
Ebola virus is transmitted from an infected person to a healthy person by contact with body fluids and secretions ( blood, sweat, urine, saliva , semen etc).
The symptoms are similar to what an average Nigerian will call malaria or typhoid fever. Headache, fever, weakness, muscle pain, rash, vomiting and easy bleeding.
The recent outbreak of Ebola in West Africa which started in February is the worst recorded so far!
A few days ago, one of the chief medical directors in charge of managing Ebola in Sierra Leone was also reported to have been infected.
More than a thousand cases have been reported in this recent outbreak in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone and over 600 of these people have died!
There is no known cure presently for Ebola virus.
So why did I shiver at the news of a possible case of Ebola in Lagos?
We CANNOT afford to add this virus to the plate of our challenges. No we can't.
Apart from the present health sector crises, we are not equipped in any way to deal with Ebola!
So please pray! Pray to God to keep Ebola out of Nigeria and let our port health services be more aggressive.
Let the health workers begin to update their knowledge and the Ministry of health get to work! 
God forbid that Ebola finds it's way into Nigeria! Because if it does, hmmmmmn.
I don't want to think of the possibilities and consequences. |
Friday 25 July 2014
Much Ado about Ebola!
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What are we gonna do as a Country to mitigate this risk ?
ReplyDeleteFirst step is to spread the news about the disease and it's prevention. Mass awareness especially in Rural and populated places.
DeleteFirst step is to spread the news about the disease and it's prevention. Mass awareness especially in Rural and populated places.
ReplyDeleteLord help us!!!
ReplyDeleteEbola virus. Anyway, I wasn't that surprise when I first heard about this from a doctor friend. HIV came with much more tragedy and fear than EV. As it stands, it's wise to adhere to the advice and council of medical practitioners. I must commend Amb b8 for her consistent effort in awareness creation logarithms even through this blog. More sensitization strategies ought to be formulated so as to reach the unreached, especially the rural areas. Furthermore, I always give in to two beliefs on the basis of divinity when circumstances of mass destruction is recorded in our environment. Is it bomblast, incessant spread of deadly diseases, economic melt down, different forms of disasters and all the acts of terrorism in our society today? Name them. Firstly, for God who has the whole world in His hands to allow things that often claim the lives of innocent once to occur there must be a greater reason. The reasons could be - for His glory to be revealed; or to begin a new dispensation in that regard. God does not joke with His glory. He can bury nations just to get His glory. What I mean here is this: if we must be safe in the midst of all these happenings, beyond the advice + council of professionals our lives must be to His glory. We must be new creatures in order to fit into His new dispensation. Afterall, "who is he that can harm U if ye be the follower of that which is gud". Personally, I'm SAFE because I'm SAVED. So friends, we are safe since we are on the LORD's side. (VisionClub)
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