LAGOS State is facing the problem of shortage of volunteers to help
care for the victims of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). In spite
of a life insurance scheme and N60, 000 daily allowance being offered by
the state government, health workers and volunteers are still not
forthcoming.
This is coming as the Ebola disease saga in Nigeria
took a sinister twist with cases of Ebola virus infection emerging among
two spouses of the health workers (primary contacts) that attended to
the index (first) case, Liberian-American, Patrick Sawyer.
Minister for Health, Prof Onyebuchi Chukwu, who confirmed the
development in an announcement yesterday in Abuja, said the new cases
are among the secondary contacts who have been under surveillance in
Lagos but were quarantined as soon as they developed Ebola symptoms.
Disturbed
by