Nigeria To Establish 9 Ebola Testing Centres

The Federal Government has said by next month, nine Testing Centres would be established across the nation, for the diagnosis of Ebola virus . Currently there are four Ebola testing centres in nigeria which are situated at ; Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Center for Disease Control in Asokoro, Abuja, University College Hospital, Ibadan, and the Redeemers University Laboratory Kilometer 35 Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

The Minster of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, and president Goodluck Jonathan while in a between the 36 state Governors said that there are also plans to send mobile laboratories to Enugu and Plateau states because of the possibility that some residents of the state might have been exposed to the deadly virus.

Onyebuchi further noted that so far Nigeria has 10 confirmed cases including Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian-American who imported the disease into Nigeria and those who had contact with the index case.