Sack: Lagos doctors stage protest

Health Minister, Onyebuchi Chukwu

 Members of the Lagos State Chapter, Nigerian Medical Association staged a protest at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi- Araba, today.

They are protesting the sacking of 16,000 resident doctors in the country by the Federal Government.

The doctors who wore white lab coats were seen carrying placards with inscriptions such as ‘Sack of 16,000 resident doctors, Death Sentence for Nigerians!,’ ‘Sack Ebola not Doctors,’ ‘Sack Boko Haram not Doctors,’ ‘Sack Chukwu not Doctors!’No to Casualisation of Doctor.’

The State Chairman of the association, Dr. Tope Ojo, who addressed journalist in LUTH, said that the sack of resident doctors in all Federal teaching hospitals in the country would lead to imminent collapse of the health sector.

Shocker: US classifies anti-Ebola drug ordered by Nigeria as pesticide

Ebola patient receiving treatment in a hospital

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday it has become aware of products being sold online that fraudulently claim to prevent or treat Ebola.

The FDA's warning comes on the heels of comments by Nigeria's top health official, Onyebuchi Chukwu, who reportedly said earlier Thursday that eight Ebola patients in Lagos, the country's capital, will receive an experimental treatment called nano-silver.

Erica Jefferson, a spokeswoman for the FDA, said she could not provide any information about the product referenced by the Nigerians.

The FDA did not specify any products in its warning.

Families, colleagues cry out: Lagos Ebola patients neglected, critically ill

Relatives and associates of the female medical doctor and other health workers who contracted the Ebola Virus Disease from the late Liberian-American, Patrick Sawyer, share the gloomy experiences of the victims with Temitayo Famutimi and Afeez Hanafi

Ebola: Wife finally opens up on why Patrick Sawyer travelled to Nigeria

Decontee Sawyer

The widow of late Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian who brought Ebola into Nigeria, has defended her husband’s decision to travel to Africa’s most populous country, saying he did so in desperate search for a country with better healthcare system than his own country.

In an article published earlier today, TMZ Liberia Magazine quoted Decontee Sawyer, who is a radio host in New York, as explaining that Mr. Sawyer had no trust in the healthcare system in Liberia and had possibly headed to Nigeria with the hope of receiving better treatment for his ailment.

Mrs. Sawyer shared her thoughts on her Facebook profile from which TMZ Liberia sourced it for publication.

Ebola fear spreads as FG quarantines 198 persons

The Federal Government on Wednesday said a total of 198 persons are currently being quarantined for the Ebola Virus Disease, this SHOWBIZPLUSng can authoritatively report.

It said while 177 are being quarantined in Lagos where the index case was reported, 21 persons are being attended to in Enugu.

Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents of the outcome of the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by President Goodluck Jonathan.

Maku said Enugu came into the picture because one of the nurses that treated the American-Liberian, Patrick Sawyer, who brought the virus to the country disobeyed medical advice and travelled to Enugu.

He said all those the nurse had contacts with, including her husband, are currently being quarantined.

Ebola: Fears as two more people in Lagos confirmed with virus

The Federal Government has announced that two more Nigerians have been confirmed to have contacted the Ebola virus disease in Lagos.

SHOWBIZPLUSng learnt that this brings to seven new cases of Ebola in Lagos and a second death from the virus.

Ebola: Panic as Nigerian doctor who treated Liberian patient is infected with virus

 Minister of Health, Dr. Onyebuchi Chukwu, on Monday explained that the medical doctor who carried out treatment on the late Patrick Sawyer, who died of Ebola virus on July 25, has exhibited symptoms of the deadly disease.

He, however, said the Federal Government had not been able to confirm whether the medical doctor has actually been infected with the disease

He said a total of 70 Nigerians who came in contact with the late Sawyer, including two other medical personnel who treated him, had been quarantined and placed under surveillance.