By Adekunle Adedosu
About 250 health workers trained by the Federal Government in collaboration with the African Union Commission are set to leave for Ebola-stricken countries on Thursday, December 4, 2015.
The volunteers, who will be offering their services to contain the Ebola virus disease in the neighbouring West African countries of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.
Supervising Minister of Health, Dr. Khaliru Alhassan, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Aminu Wali and the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, including top government functionaries, diplomats, development partners and private sector chieftains, will be at the formal departure ceremony in Lagos today.
Reports indicate this is the first batch, and another is set to leave in January. Altogether, 504 volunteers from Nigeria are set to get involved in order to help contain Ebola in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.
Lagos also volunteered 28 experts of the experts, with almost 98 per cent of them part of the team that helped contain Ebola in Nigeria.
