EBOLA:NIGERIAN BORN LIBERIAN IMMIGRANT FACES GENDARME,FAMILY HURDLES

EBOLA:NIGERIAN BORN LIBERIAN IMMIGRANT FACES GENDARME,FAMILY HURDLES

…………………………………………..blood bank nears empty inside facility

…………………………………………..Paedia Express Multimedia reports Iris Medical Group

To state officials over illicit conduct on Ebola Virus investigations

.....................................................................Global update on Ebola War

BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU.(JOHN WOODS,CANADIAN PRESS)

Liberia security forces dressed in riot gear, left, control a crowd of people in the West Point area, as the government clamps down on the movement of people to prevent the spread of the Ebola virus in Monrovia (Abbas Dulleh/Associated Press)

A Nigerian Family is currently scarred stiff about the whereabouts of one of its members  who lives in Monrovia,a month after they last had a discussion with him over the internet regarding the Ebola outbreak in Liberia.

In an investigation conducted by Paedia Express Multimedia in Lagos, Nigeria by Madam Doris Majiyagbe[not real names],it was learnt that Mr Charles Majiyagbe who lives in Monrovia was trying to bribe his way through the tight Liberian and Ivorian border as the Eboa virus crisis gets messier.

It is not known as at press time what the Nigerian Embassies in Monrovia in Liberia ,Freetown, in Sierra Leone and Conakry in Guinea as Nigerians living in the diasporas keep giving Paedia Express Multimedia  the news about how unreliable  Nigerian embassy officials were.

Mrs Majiyagbe said that her step son had gotten in touch with her about a month ago to complain bitterly about the big humanitarian crisis in Liberia  and was in dire financial need and she and other family members had rallied round him but up till now they have not had from him a month after that.

She explained that what made her to worry was that there exists an air travel ban and a cross border ban as well but quickly added that Mr Charles Majiyagbe promised to bribe his way through the gendarme at the Ivory Coast  and Liberian borders.

Madam majiyagbe laments:”I have also heard that there is a shoot at sight order on any illegal migrant at the borders and this is what worries me, eh asked us for money and I sent him  some other  and I think some other family members raised some amount for him too as I hear that the situation over there is really tense”

“corpses are seen littering the streets ,there is a general panic over the issue,if he comes to Nigeria then he will have do a mandatory 21 days of quarantine before we will allow him to visit us”

In a related issue,Paedia Express Multimedia had discovered a near empty blood bank in Lagos,Nigeria as the world continues to grapple with the pains of the worst Ebola Virus outbreak since it was first isolated in 1976 In a village in the jungles of Congo.

In an investigation conducted in Lagos,Nigeria this reporter had to actually donate a pint of blood in order to break down the walls of official secrecy concerning the process of blood transfusion in Nigeria.

At the ultra modern ;Health Point Diagnostic Centre in Ifako-Ijaiye ,Lagos ,it was discovered that the level of blood donation had not passed the level it was before the outbreak of Ebola Virus in West Africa.

A laboratory medical officer at the Health Centre told this reporter that we were in a period that blood donation was seriously needed due to the dangers  that Ebola virus poses to everybody .

He noted that blood donation at the centre had neither reduced  nor increased as the situation was still the same like the pre-ebola outbreak era.

In the centers manifest it was discovered the between july 12^th to july 31^st,2014 .the health centre has about 29 people donating blood to its blood bank program.

Paedia Express Multimedia also gathered that between August1st ,2014 to August 31^st,2014 ,.about 43 adults had donated blood to the centers blood transfusion centre.

However just a paltry 7 individuals had donated blood since 2^nd September,2014 till 5^th of the same month  when this reporter came calling.

It was observed in some literatures at the facility  that the Blood Bank Society of Nigeria[B.B.S.N]and the Safe Blood For Africa Foundation[S.B.A.F]  were trying to encourage the society positively on the benefit of donating blood.

This reporter also leant through 2 laboratory  scientists that the donation of blood by people with a history of high blood pressure or hypertension was good for them as it will go a long way in regulating the flow of the blood stream thereby saving  them from sudden and early death..

It was uncovered that there were well over 200 medical diagnostics centre in Lagos state  and the situation as far as blood donation was concerned was almost the same .

ican Union to host emergency meeting of the Executive Council to consolidate collective continental efforts against Ebola

The African Union Executive Council will meet in Addis Ababa on 8 September today to adopt a common position and define appropriate strategies to enable Africa to effectively combat the Ebola epidemic.

The council’s emergency meeting has been necessitated by the need to have a common understanding of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) and current status of the response and to come up with a collective continental approach, taking into account the socio-political and economic impact of the disease.

On July 31, the Permanent Representatives Committee (PRC) of the AU met ahead of the executive council meeting, and discussed various issues in preparation of the meeting, that included direct assistance to member states affected by Ebola and the need to accelerate efforts towards the establishment of an African Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ACDCP).

The meeting also highlighted the importance of communication strategies on the crisis, both within and outside the continent, mobilisation of the necessary resources, and building the capacity of member states in the field of research on vaccines and drugs against disease.

Various African countries including Nigeria, Botswana, Malawi, Gambia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda and South Africa have extended support to Ebola affected countries, such as direct funding, medical personnel and clinics to compliment on-going AU and international efforts.

The executive council meeting is also expected to deliberate on the suspension of flights, and maritime and border closures, as well as stigmatization of the affected countries and their nationals.

Concern has been raised by some countries that such measures could have serious socio economic and cultural effects, and could ultimately lead to increased suffering of people in the affected countries.

Ebola has largely affected countries in West Africa and there are concerns not only over the fatality rate, but also on the consequences of the disease on the affected countries, many of whom are trying to grow their economies after emerging from conflict.

The Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union invoked Article 6f of its protocol and decided on August 19 to “authorize the immediate deployment of an AU-led Joint Military and Civil Medical Mission against Ebola, comprising of medical doctors, nurses and other medical and paramedical personnel, as well as military medical personnel. The first deployment of the medical mission is scheduled to start on the 10th of September 2014.

Media are invited to cover the opening session of the emergency meeting of the executive council on September 8. A press conference will be held on the same day.

 Meanwhile ,Paedia  Express Multimedia has officially reported as at press time,the management and staff of the Iris Medical Foundation and its sister firm,Iris Drugs Limited over there illicit conduct while the former was investigating the Ebola Virus crisis recently

The most recent Canadian lab team was abruptly evacuated from Sierra Leone late last month when three people at the hotel complex where they were staying were diagnosed with Ebola. . Canada is sending its mobile Ebola laboratory back into action in Sierra Leone.

The Public Health Agency of Canada said the team left Saturday to resume running a lab that supports an Ebola treatment centre at Kailahun, in eastern Sierra Leone.
Canada has had a continuous laboratory presence in the West African outbreak zone since June, with three-person teams typically spending a month in operation before being spelled off.
But the most recent team was abruptly withdrawn from Sierra Leone late last month when three people at the hotel complex where they were staying were diagnosed with Ebola. It is believed the infected people were hotel staff.
As well, an epidemiologist from Senegal who was working in a different part of the same unit and staying in the same hotel contracted Ebola.
The man was later sent by air ambulance to Germany for treatment.

 At the time, the Public Health Agency said the lab workers were being brought home for their own safety. But the agency said a replacement team would be sent to Sierra Leone when arrangements were made to ensure a safer living environment.

The team had been running diagnostic testing operation for a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) treatment centre at Kailahun, near the borders of Guinea and Liberia. A spokesperson for the agency said in an email that the replacement team was returning to Kailahun.
Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia are struggling to cope with the largest Ebola outbreak in known history, which has seen roughly 3,700 infections and an estimated 1,850 deaths. Those figures are larger than the combine totals of all previous known outbreaks of Ebola.
The World Health Organization warned Friday that at the current rate of spread, it expects to see cases increase by thousands of new infections a week in coming weeks, an unprecedented event with this disease.