‘Ebola outbreak won’t last six months’

The Ministry of Health has expressed itsdetermination to stop the spread of the Ebola virusin the country before the end of the six monthspredicted by a non-governmental organisation,Medecins Sans Frontieres, aka Doctors WithoutBorders.The organisation had said that it would take at leastsix months to contain the spread of the virus. The organisation’s President, Joanne Liu, said thesituation was “deteriorating faster, and movingfaster, than we can respond to.”

But the spokesperson for the Ministry of Health, Dan Nwomeh, said the ministry had partnered with the Federal Government and the 36 states to curb the spread of the disease before the period predicted by Doctors Without Borders. He said, “What the ministry is doing is probably what you know. The Federal Government, with the ministry, has put certain measures in place to ensure that the outbreak does not last up to the predicted six months.”

Nwomeh added that the Minister of Health, Prof.

Onyebuchi Chukwu, had expressed confidence that

the disease would soon be brought to an end in the

country.

He said, “The minister is very confident Nigeria’s case

will not be up to six months. The World Health

Organisation was only referring to West Africa as a

whole, not specifically Nigeria.