Topic: Ministry of Health hopeful to get ZMapp for Ebola diagnosed victims in Nigeria  (Read 2229 times)

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The Federal Government has formally requested for the experimental drugs being developed by the U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for the treatment of the Ebola victims.

The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyeabuchi Chukwu, said this to State House correspondents after the Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by Vice-President Namadi Sambo on Wednesday in Abuja.

Chukwu said that he had been communicating with the director of the centre so as to get the drugs for Nigerians already infected by the Ebola disease. "We are doing everything possible.

"This morning, I sent an e-mail to the director of the U.S. Centre for Disease Control because we have been in communication in the last 36 hours by e-mails as well as talking.

"And I asked that we are getting report that the experimental drug seems to be useful.

"It is also possible that we can have access for our own people who are presently being treated under isolation?'

Read more: http://allafrica.com/stories/201408070514.html#ixzz39hA76HUt

 

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