About 250 health workers, out of the 504 volunteers trained
by the Federal Government in collaboration with the African Union Commission,
will be leaving for Ebola-stricken countries on Thursday.
The Director, Nigerian Centre for Diseases and Control, Abuja,
Prof. Abdulsalamin Nasidi, who spoke at the opening ceremony of the two-day
departure training for the first batch of the volunteers in Lagos on Monday,
said that the Federal Government would dispatch the second batch of 254 health
workers in January.
Nasidi stated that the health team consists of doctors,
nurses, pharmacists and other cadre of health professionals from Lagos and
Rivers states and the Federal Capital Territory.
He stated that the AUC in a Memorandum of Understanding with
the Federal Government would be providing life insurance coverage, allowances
and repatriation and evacuation services for the health volunteers while
working in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
published by:The Punch yesterday.
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