administration has earmarked over N300
million to combat Ebola
The Rivers State Government has allocated
over N300 million for the fight against the
Ebola virus.
This was revealed by the state Governor, Rotimi
Amaechi on Tuesday, September 2, 2014 when the
Country Director of the World Health
Organisation in Nigeria, Mr. Rui Vaz, visited him
at the Government House in Port Harcourt, the
state capital.
According to Punch, Amaechi said:
"Whatever it takes for us to overcome Ebola,
please, I will do it because it costs more if Ebola
is on the loose than if it is contained.
"So, we are happy that the World Health
Organisation is here to assist Rivers State. We
are happy that the World Health Organisation
appreciates the dangers of Ebola to our
communities.
"We need to contain Ebola. If there is no cure,
then there is containment so that more persons
don't contract it. The Rivers State Government is
prepared to take all the responsibility. The
citizens are ours."
He, however, urged politicians in the state
against politicising the Ebola outbreak and
added that his resolve was to protect the lives of
the people of the state.
According to him, "They cannot be talking about
politics in the midst of Ebola. We are talking
about lives. For me, I am the governor of Rivers
State.
"I am elected to protect the lives of Rivers people
and to ensure that they are alive. That is my
responsibility to the people of the State."
Rivers recorded its first case of Ebola when a
doctor, Iyke Sam Enemuo died after being
infected by ECOWAS diplomat, Olu-Ibukun Koye,
who came in contact with index case, Patrick
Sawyer.
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