EBOLA: 7 day goodwill medical trip turns into 28 days trip, as U.S quarantine Nigerian medical personnel
I wonder when the United States America will stop being a Drama Queen. Nigeria has been certified healthy as far back as November 20, 2014 and they still have health officials quarantined for reasons not known to us or them... I wonder o
Read an extract of the story from Punch Newspaper
The United States-based Nigerian health professionals, comprising medical doctors, nurses and pharmacists on medical mission in Abia State, said they would be quarantined for 21 days for Ebola virus when they return to the US.
The leader of the 75-man team and the National President of Abia State National Association of North America, Dr. Christian Ike, disclosed this at a press conference in Umuahia after the team’s one-week free medical services in Abia State.
He decried the stigmatisation of Ebola-infested countries by the West, wondering why visitors to Nigeria would still be isolated even when the country had been certified “Ebola-free.”
Ike said members of the team who are Abia indigenes and health experts made a lot of sacrifices to sponsor the medical mission. He said that their passion for the people was their driving force.T
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