The Nig. Minister of Health, prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, said on Monday that 271 people suspected to be positive of Ebola virus were under surveillance in Lagos and Port Harcourt as at Sunday.prof.  Chukwu made this known to Nigerians in Abuja during the second emergency National Council on Health meeting on Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in the country He said 72 person were
under surveillance in Lagos and 199 in Port Harcourt.

No nobody is under surveillance in Enugu for now, and no case of EVD in the State. As at Aug. 31, 278 contacts in Lagos state completed the 21-day surveillance, and have been discharged.
“In Enugu state, all the six identified contacts have completed the 21-day observation period and have been discharged,’’ the Minister added.
He also said that it was expected that a few more contacts could develop the EVD, especially in River state, before Nigeria could see the last case of the disease.

The Minister made it known that the strategies for containing the disease in the country were focused on appropriate information, education and communication and sustenance of the surveillance systems.
Other strategies, as he said are .
(1)  Reduction in harmful practices that promote the spread of the virus.
(2) Provision of adequate care for confirmed cases and active contact tracing.

Onyebuchi said the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) had gotten approval for the re-production of copies of the protocols and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for management of Ebola cases.
He said that the approval gotten by (SOP) also included protocols for submitting samples to the laboratories and also to burying victims of the disease.
He disclosed that Ebola virus could be diagnosed in five states in the country and Abuja listing the states as
 (i) Lagos, (ii) Oyo, (iii) Edo, (iv) Ogun and (v) Rivers.
Chukwu said that the ministry had planned to procure additional mobile laboratories for Abakaliki, Port Harcourt, Bauchi, Jos and Sokoto.
He added that the ministry had also proposed a special fund to support affected private hospitals that complied with the policy of seeing all patients and reported suspected cases.
“Mr Atedo Peterside’s ANAP Foundation is supporting affected private hospitals that complied with the policy of seeing all patients and reported suspected cases of EVD with N100, 000 per bed space per day.