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.

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