The Nigerian Medical Association on
Monday faulted the Federal Government’s directive to schools to resume
on September 22 as against October 12.
It said through its National
Secretary-General, Dr. Olawunmi Alayaki, that all schools ought to
remain shut till all those under surveillance for the Ebola Virus
Disease in the country had been certified free.
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“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.
The NMA suggested that the resumption of
schools could be shifted till December or early part of next year
because if Ebola should spread to any school, it would “assume another
dimension.”
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