The Commissioner for Health, Hajia Hadiza Abdullahi, at a news conference in Minna disclosed that government is already creating awareness among the people to ensure the disease does not enter the state in addition to the establishment of a quarantine centre in Minna, while two more centres will be established in the two other senatorial districts.
She said that the government has already commenced sensitization of Muslim clerics across the state on the steps to take in the event of a Muslim patient dying as a result of infection by the disease explaining that the mode of burial of an Ebola victim as accepted by the Holy Quran was being taught the clerics.
Hajia Abdullahi further said that part from the sensitization of the public, there is the introduction of special radio and television programmes where the public will be able to contact experts for information on how to manage the disease even as government has commenced negotiation with some telecommunication service providers on how to get toll free lines for useage by the people.
The commissioner said that the general hospitals in Minna and other local government areas will be used as isolation wards for patients because the hospitals have detached areas that can be used for such projects.
According to her, the government has set up a committee which has prepared a N400m budget for the containment of the disease.
Meanwhile Hajia Abdullahi has disclosed that the state government has awarded contract worth N122m for the purchase of a CT scan machine to be installed at the IBB specialist hospital.
She added that government has also awarded another N33.7m for the re-roofing and fencing of the Minna social rehabilitation center.
