Ebola: Private Hospitals Reject Patients With Fever Symptoms

Some private hospitals in Lagos yesterday Tuesday August 12th rejected treating patients who visited them with symptoms of fever as part of measures being taking to prevent contracting the Ebola virus. 

A visit by the News Agency of Nigeria to some hospitals in Lagos Metropolis showed that nurses and other health workers, including cleaners were seen wearing face mask and gloves while attending to patients.
Also, some of the health facilities were compelling patients to wash their hands and apply sanitisers before proceeding into their building.

Some of the hospitals visited included Jaycee Hospital, Prime Hospital, Lifeline Children’s Hospital and Providence Hospital. A Neurologist at Jaycee Hospital, Dr. Francis Ojini, told NAN that his hospital did not attend to patients who had with fever. Ojini said that it became necessary as health workers were at greater risk of contracting the virus.

“Health workers are the first to be in contact with patients who visited the hospital and so it is necessary we take precautions.
“For now, any illness that has to do with fever is not being attended to as we are trying to be careful because of the new development of the Ebola disease.
“If there is need, we refer patients we feel we cannot treat. We hope we are able to curtail the spread in order to save lives,” he said.

A nurse at the same hospital, who pleaded anonymity, said that nurses wore facemask and gloves when any patients visited the facility.
He said: “We are protecting ourselves from contracting a deadly disease that has no drug or vaccine at the moment.”
Also speaking, the Medical Director, Lifeline Children’s Hospital, Dr. Uche Owowo, said that his hospital was making hand sanitizers available for patients.
Owowo urged the Federal Government and other civil organizations to intensify awareness programmes to educate the masses about the disease.
“Many people still need to know more about the disease, how it can be contracted and how to prevent being infected.
“I believe educating people and making the facilities available and accessible will encourage people to be cautious,” he said.
Efforts to speak with the medical directors and other health workers of Prime Hospital and Providence Hospital proved abortive as they refused to comment. - NAN

Mercy Johnson reveals her biggest fear …

Actress Mercy Johnson-Okojie is afraid of failure. 

 

She shared her phobia of failure during an interview with City People magazine, and opened up on how she deals with criticism. According to her, harsh words no longer move her to tears. ‘I had gone through all of that, growing up, I had cried all the tears I need to cry growing up. Nobody can make me go back now. So it’s like hate all you want, I am moving. So you are just going to stay there and keep talking and I am ahead of you. It’s more or less like you know me, I don’t know you’, she said. She also spoke about her early days as an actress, saying: ‘Success is hard. It’s never easy. It takes more than luck to make the right decisions, and the right choices. A lot of people have actually been acting before me, but they are just nowhere close. It’s not because I am better, it’s grace. 

My biggest phobia is failure. I had a phobia for it’, According to the actress, she doesn’t socialize often because she was a bit of a loner as a youngster: I didn’t grow up in an environment that was very sociable, I didn’t have friends. Since I got into the industry I can say I am one person that you can hardly meet in a club house or at party. Even events, it’s really hard to see me there because that’s just not me.’…

Meet The Woman With 14 Inches Nails (Photos)

A mother of four, Larue Drummond who was a chronic nail biter usually bites her nails to her cuticles until they bled. 

But according to Larue everything changed about 8years ago when she met a woman at the super market with long nails, who says when you look after your nails, they will look after you.  
 

She decided to keep her nails and has spent nothing less than $10,000 to maintain them ever since and spends £100 each time she does her manicure.  She calls the short nails babies and the longest one Miss attitude. Mrs Drummond still claims she cooks even with those nails on

 

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Verdict on Suarez suspension appeal due on Thursday

The Uruguay international was banned for four months for biting Italy's Giorgio Chiellini at the World Cup but the Barcelona forward has challenged the length of the sentence

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has confirmed that it will announce its verdict on Luis Suarez's suspension on Thursday.

The Uruguay international was banned from all football-related activity for four months for biting Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini during their respective nations' World Cup clash in Natal in June.

His country's FA was quick to appeal the verdict, but the governing body refused to shorten his sentence, leading to the case being referred to the CAS.

Suarez subsquently left Liverpool for Barcelona Barcelona, who have repeatedly voiced their optimism that he will be available to play sooner than originally expected.

And it has now been confirmed that his fate will be known at 15:00CET on Thursday, after his case was heard last week.

"The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) will announce its decision in the matter Luis Suarez, FC Barcelona & the Uruguayan FA on Thursday 14 August 2014 at around 15:00," an official statement read.

"This case was heard on 8 August 2014 at the CAS offices in Lausanne. At the request of the Appellants and with the agreement of Fifa, the CAS has conducted an expedited arbitration procedure.

"As a consequence, the CAS Panel has accepted to render its decision within a short period of time but with grounds to follow later."

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Canada offers 1000 Dose of experimental Ebola Virus Vaccine to Africa

The Canadian Public Health Agency has offered to release 1000 dose of a made-in-Canada experimental Ebola virus vaccine known as VSV-EBOV which has never been tested on humans but has shown to be effective in the treatment of the disease in animals.

In a statement released yesterday August 12th, the Canadian Health Minister Rona Ambrose said the World Health Organization's Director general, Margaret Chan, has approved of the donation. 

The Minister also revealed that Canada will be donating $185,000 to the World Health Organization for the prevention and control of the deadly virus in Africa. Canada has only 1500 of the experimental vaccine and would be sending 1000 of it to Africa.

"I was pleased to offer the experimental vaccine developed by Canadian researchers as a global resource to help fight this outbreak," she said, adding that between 800 and 1,000 doses would be donated to the WHO.
The Minister in the statement added that "Canada feels this experimental vaccine is a global resource, so in response we are sharing it with the international community, while keeping a small supply in Canada."

The news comes hours after the World Health Organization said a panel of experts advised that it would be ethical to use untested drugs and vaccines in this raging epidemic, which is several times larger than any previous outbreak.

 

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Jim Iyke’s View on Single Ladies – Do You Agree?

Nollywood actor Jim Iyke took to his Instagram page yesterday to share an interesting view on single ladies.
 

Women are like apples on trees, the best ones are on the top of the tree. The men don’t want to reach for the good ones because they are afraid of falling and don’t want to get hurt. Instead they get the cold manipulating easier climbs. So, the apples at the top think something is wrong with them, when in reality they are amazing. They just have to wait for the right man to come along, the one who’s brave enough to climb all the way to the top because they value quality away from d spotlight.

Do you agree with the nollywood 'badboy'?

Share your views with us......

 

NYSC Is Ready To Stop Ebola Outbreak In Camps- DG

The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier General Johnson Olawumi, has assured Nigerians that the scheme is ready to stop Ebola outbreak in their various camps across the country.

According to Daily Independent, the DG said the scheme has fully equipped all its camp clinics with necessary items for the medical personnel to properly handle any suspected Ebola patient if such case should come up.

Olawumi, who made this known during his visit to Delta State NYSC Orientation Camp at Issele-Uku, disclosed that the scheme is already in contact with all state Commissioners of Health to include NYSC Camps in their contingency plans in case of any suspected outbreak of the dreaded disease or any other communicable one.

The NYSC boss also assured that security measures have been put in place to ensure the safety of corps members throughout the service year in any community where they serve. He said the scheme’s directorate headquarters operates a 24-hour distress call centre, with numbers already given to corps members, which they can call in case of emergencies.
Olawumi assured that if any emergency call should be received from any corps member, the closest security agency to the location where the distressed corps member is would be immediately contacted to respond.
Speaking also, Delta State NYSC Coordinator, Olive Essien Etukudo, revealed that the state is annexing a total of 2,844 corps members for the 2014 batch ‘B’ Orientation Course. She said there were 1367 males and 1477 females.

Meanwhile, the scheme which is very swift in response to any issues concerning the welfare of corps members nationwide had on Thursday, July 31,announced the redeployment of corps members from seven northern states in a reaction to the incessant attacks on the country by the Boko Haram terrorist group.
Brigadier-General Johnson Bamidele Olawumi, who is from Iyin Ekiti, Ekiti State, joined the Nigerian Army as a cadet of the 36 Regular Course on 24 September 1984 and was commissioned into the Nigerian Army Electrical and Mechanical Engineers’ Corps on 23 September 1989.

Another Man Dies Of Ebola Virus In Nigeria

Nigeria has recorded its third number of deaths from the Ebola virus after an ECOWAS official was reported to have died from the virus in the country. 

 

“The ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) Commission announces with deep regret the passing of a staff member of its Lagos Liaison Office, Mr Jatto Asihu Abdulqudir, aged 36,” it said in a statement.

“Mr Abdulqudir, a protocol assistant, was among those who assisted the Liberian delegate Mr Patrick Sawyer to a regional meeting who died from the Ebola Virus Disease at a Lagos hospital on 25th July 2014.”
It was gathered that the late ECOWAS official had been quarantined since Sawyer was confirmed as having Ebola, which has killed more than 1,000 people since the start of the year, most of them in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.

“The Commission wishes to use this opportunity to express its gratitude to Nigerian government authorities and others who contributed to managing the late official while under quarantine,” it added.

“The Management of the Commission wishes to commiserate with Mr Abdulqudir’s family and colleagues and prays for the repose of his soul.”
It would be recalled that Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday branded Sawyer a “crazyman” for bringing Ebola into Nigeria, despite his sister having died from it and that he reportedly displayed symptoms before getting on a flight to Lagos.

Also, a nurse who treated the late Sawyer died of Ebola in Lagos, while tests last weekend confirmed that another nurse had also contracted the virus.

As of August 9, the World Health Organization (WHO) said there were 13 probable or suspected cases of Ebola in Nigeria, including two deaths.

The Nigerian Ministry of Health had stated last week that there were 10 confirmed cases of Ebola virus in Nigeria, with more than a hundred people being monitored for signs of the disease.

According to reports, the late Sawyer was in Nigeria to have attend an ECOWAS meeting and Abdulqudir escorted him to hospital in the Ikoyi neighbourhood from Lagos airport, where he arrived on a flight from Monrovia via the Togolese capital, Lome.

It is understood he then returned to the ECOWAS offices on nearby Lagos Island.

Investigation revealed that the offices have been closed and disinfected as a precaution while staff have been informed of preventative measures to take, including seeking prompt medical advice in the event of illness.

ECOWAS had on Monday, 11 August, 2014, stated that the Ebola virus outbreak threatened West Africa’s social and economic progress and sought the support of all member states and partners to tackle the spread of Ebola. (Naija.com)

Annie Idibia shares new family photos

Beautiful Idibia family!! 

Tu Baba and his lovely family spent the whole of yesterday having fun at the amusement park!

 

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Man Kills His Mother For Allegedly Using Witchcraft To Stall His Progress.

A 29-year-old man,Ekene Ucheagwu, who killed his 65-year-old mother, Agnes in her home at Ogbunka in Orumba South Local Government Area of Anambra State was yesterday paraded by men of the Special Anti Robbery Squad,SARS Awkuzu.

Ekene, a cobbler, said he had to kill his mother because she was using witchcraft to block the progress of her surviving four children.

Narrating his story, the suspect said: “I decided to kill her because she did not allow the spirit of God to come into our family.

”Once she cursed anybody, that person will never progress and she was doing it to my brothers and sisters very often.

“I am the only one among her six children (two later died) that knew her secrets. My elder brother, who is 45 years old is yet to get married and nobody in our area agrees to marry any of my sisters or their daughters to marry any of us.

“When I confronted her by calling her ‘queen of the coast’, she tried to kill me, having known that I knew her secrets and that was why I decided to kill her first.

“I hit her on the head with a big stick at night and she slumped and died and I carried her in a wheelbarrow that night to the Obukwu bush in my community where I burnt her body to ashes.”

He said that after some days of the incident, some people in the community, who did not see her, began to suspect that something terrible had happened, but they could not prove anything, adding that when he could not explain the whereabouts of his mother, the villagers banished him from the community.

Ekene said he fled to Aba, Abia State where he continued with his business until men of SARS arrested him.

He told Vanguard that his late mother never got married, adding that she had all her six children in her father’s house and they all answer her maiden name.

He said that having realised the enormity of his action, he was regretting killing his mother, although he insisted that; ”When the kingdom of God finally comes, people would realise that I did the right thing.”

Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Mr. Uche Eze, who paraded the suspect said investigation into the matter was continuing

It is a pity, what has this world turned into? she carried you for nine months and watched you grow, she should have kill you then....oh yes! after all she had all the opportunity to do so.....

 

Source: SDK