Lagos activates emergency operations after Ebola outbreak kills 15 in DRC
The Lagos Notify Govt has activated its Public Smartly being Emergency Operations Centre, PHEOC, Incident Management Building, IMS, as segment of precautionary measures against a doable outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease.
The pass follows an emergency meeting convened on September 9 at Mainland Health center, Yaba, after the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, confirmed 28 suspected cases and 15 deaths, including four health team, in its most modern Ebola resurgence.
Smartly being experts at the session assessed Lagos’ preparedness using a comprehensive checklist that lined infection prevention and preserve an eye on, surveillance, contact tracing, laboratory means, case management, evacuation procedures, logistics, risk communication, and funds planning.
Talking after the meeting, the Eternal Secretary, Ministry of Smartly being, Dr Olusegun Ogboye, represented by the Director of Epidemiology, Biosecurity and World Smartly being, Dr Ismail Abdus-Salam, acknowledged the activation of the IMS used to be a proactive measure, stressing Lagos’ excessive risk as Nigeria’s busiest entry level with multiple international gateways.
In accordance with him, the assert already has life like structures in predicament, including an isolation centre with 14-18 bed areas, equipped laboratories, and an enhanced surveillance plot. He added that training for frontline responders throughout all response pillars would inaugurate up straight.
“Our preparedness review has been concluded. The isolation centre is ready, laboratories are life like, and surveillance is trusty. Origin the following day, officers in surveillance, IPC, case management, and risk communication will undergo refresher training,” Ogboye explained.
He also disclosed that Ebola advisories and truth sheets had been validated and could well well be circulated to private and non-private health facilities to preserve medical doctors, nurses, and laboratory scientists alert.
Ogboye entreated Lagos residents now not to horror, assuring that government measures had been sturdy sufficient to safeguard the assert. He informed strict hand hygiene, environmental cleanliness, and fast reporting of suspected cases, especially amongst travellers from Ebola-affected regions.
“Ebola is transmitted via stammer contact with blood, body fluids, or sinful devices from contaminated persons. Anyone with fever, sore throat, or malaria-like indicators who has currently travelled to outbreak areas could well well also neutral restful straight call 767 or 112,” he warned.
Extra personnel, he added, had been deployed to the PHEOC, whereas formal memos had been being processed to mobilise sources could well well also neutral restful a case be confirmed.
At the Murtala Muhammed Worldwide Airport, the Officer-in-Price of Port Smartly being Services and products, Dr Abdullahi Lawal, confirmed that surveillance and infection prevention measures had been scaled up.
Whereas there are no stammer flights from the DRC to Nigeria, he celebrated that travellers from neighbouring nations, including Rwanda, are being closely monitored, with excessive-risk passengers undergoing enhanced screening.
“All airport stakeholders, immigration, customs, and FAAN, were sensitised to title indicators of Ebola. Travellers are also being informed on strict hygiene and to record any suspicious sickness,” Lawal acknowledged.
He commended the Lagos Notify Govt for its collaboration with federal agencies at the airport, describing the partnership as serious to battling Ebola’s re-entry into Nigeria.
The emergency meeting used to be attended by key stakeholders, including Dr Olusola Adejumo (Director, Mainland Health center), Dr Bamidele Mutiu (Director, Lagos Biobank), Dr Memuna Esan (WHO consultant), moreover as PHEOC pillar leads and assert surveillance officers, all of whom pledged unwavering vigilance.
