#Nigeria

#Nigeria appears to have actively controled the Spread of #Ebola Virus in the country, with no new cases and all that were quanrantined, released which comes as a relief for a country with over 177 million  People especially #Lagos which has over 21 Million people living there. 

Nigerian health officials in August wait to screen passengers arriving at Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos. Nigeria’s first Ebola patient, who became infected in Liberia, flew into Lagos in July.
According to Seattle times, 
The chief of the command center, Dr. Faisal Shuaib, gave credit to a coordinated effort by the health ministry, the CDC, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, Doctors Without Borders and the International Committee for the Red Cross.
Also, he noted, Nigeria has significant advantages over poorer countries where the outbreak is out of control:
It has many more doctors per capita, some educated abroad at top medical schools.
It has standing teams of medical investigators, with vehicles and telephones, who normally trace outbreaks of other ills like cholera or Lassa fever.
Lagos University Teaching Hospital was able to do Ebola tests in six hours.




The hospitals where patients were isolated were equipped to do tests for electrolytes and blood proteins, both of which must be kept in balance as patients are fed orally or intravenously to replace fluids lost to diarrhea and vomiting.


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