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WorldStage Newsonline—As World Health Organization (WHO) is expected to officially declare the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) over in Nigeria, health stakeholders are expected to meet in Abuja on Thursday over the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD).
Nigeria had been able to curb the virus which was imported into the country by a Liberia-American Patrick Sawyer in July. The country recorded seven deaths in the process.
According to a statement signed by Mrs. Ayotunde Adesugba, Director Information in the Ministry of Health, WHO will soon make official declaration on the virus in the country.
Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, is expected to declare open the High Level Meeting of experts and stakeholders from across the nation under the auspices of the Treatment Research Group (TRG) on the Ebola Virus Disease.
The meeting according to Mrs. Adesugba “will review the current national efforts, available resources, and develop a roadmap for research on Ebola and other emerging diseases among Nigerians, both in-country and in the Diaspora.
“The outcome of the high level meeting will help to galvanize support on a common agenda among experts and stakeholders, including the organized private sector, that share similar concerns on EVD and other diseases in Sub Saharan Africa and globally.
“It may be recalled that on August 4, 2014 as part of the National Response to the Ebola Virus Diseases outbreak in Nigeria, the Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, inaugurated the Treatment Research Group on the Disease which immediately begun work based on its terms of reference.
“Consequently, the work and expertise of TRG members facilitates the closure of knowledge gaps in the understanding of the Ebola Disease, develops potential treatment options, while formulating a more efficient containment framework to better equip the nation against any future outbreak of Ebola or any other related emergent disease.
“Nigeria has been commended nationally and internationally for its robust and effective national response to the Ebola Virus Disease. Since August 31, 2014, no new case of the Virus has been reported in Nigeria.
It is therefore expected that the World Health Organisation (WHO) will soon officially declare the EVD over in Nigeria.”
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