The National Leadership of the Nigerian Medical Association,
NMA, has faulted the Federal Government directive to schools to resume on
September 22 as against October 12.
This was made known
via its National Secretary-General, Dr. Olawunmi Alayaki, Monday. Its said that
all schools ought to remain shut till all those under surveillance for the
Ebola Virus Disease in the country had been certified free. “We are not happy
with this decision on the resumption of schools.
Schools should be
shut till the last suspected case or patient is certified free of the virus,”
the NMA said.
Before the association made this known the Rivers State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Sampson Parker, had disclosed that an 18 month-old baby had been quarantined in the state for showing symptoms of the deadly virus
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