BEVERLY HILLS, August 06, (THEWILL) – Nigeria has formally requested for the experimental drugs being developed by the U.S. Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for the cure of the Ebola virus.
The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyeabuchi Chukwu, made the announcement Wednesday in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital after the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by Vice-President Namadi Sambo.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) quoted the Minister as saying that he had been communicating with the director of the centre so as to get the drugs for Nigerians already infected by the Ebola disease.
“We are doing everything possible. This morning, I sent an e-mail to the director of the U.S. Centre for Disease Control because we have been in communication in the last 36 hours by e-mails as well as talking. And I asked that we are getting report that the experimental drug seems to be useful. It is also possible that we can have access for our own people who are presently being treated under isolation.
“So, we are making efforts, we are relating with them and we are doing everything possible to ensure that we contain this disease.
“It is an emergency but with the cooperation of all and with government leading and God blessing our efforts, we shall contain it,’’ the Minister said.
Three Ebola-related deaths have so far occurred in Nigeria – the Liberian-American man that brought the virus to Lagos, and one female doctor and a female nurse, both treated him at the First Consultant Hospital near Ikoyi, a highbrow district in Lagos.
