Nigeria: Ebola - NCDC Approves N100k Weekly for Each Person in Isolation
The agency said the stipend will cover feeding and accommodation for 53 primary contacts as health teams monitor them for 21 days.
- On Sunday, NCDC Director-General Jide Idris announced that the agency approved N100,000 weekly for each of the 53 contacts identified following an imported Ebola case in the Federal Capital Territory.
- Health authorities traced these contacts after a 42-year-old woman, the wife of a Swiss Embassy staff member, returned from Uganda on October 3 and later tested positive for Ebola.
- "We are providing N100,000 per person per week just to maintain their comfort and feeding, because they were complaining," Idris said, addressing economic hardships faced during isolation.
- Public health teams are monitoring these individuals for 21 days to identify potential infections early, while the agency has established isolation arrangements for contacts requiring them.
- "This is not the responsibility of the FCT alone," Idris stated, urging other states to prepare financial and logistical provisions for similar outbreaks to ensure coordinated response.
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He said the affected people had been taken out of their normal environments for public health reasons, making it necessary for the authorities to consider their welfare while ensuring they complied with quarantine measures
We’ve traced 53 Ebola contacts, to pay each N100,000 weekly – NCDC
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, NCDC, traced 53 people who had contact with an Ebola patient in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT. DAILY POST reports that the index case is a 42-year-old woman, the wife of a Swiss Embassy staff member, who returned from Uganda through Addis Ababa on October 3 and […] We’ve traced 53 Ebola contacts, to pay each N100,000 weekly – NCDC
Nigeria: Ebola - NCDC Approves N100k Weekly for Each Person in Isolation
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has approved a weekly payment of N100,000 per person to support individuals placed under isolation or quarantine as part of efforts to contain the Ebola outbreak in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
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