authorities. The reporting channels are: Health facilities: Any health facility near you( especially governmentowned) Mobile toll-free hotline: 0800-32652-4357( 0800-EBOLA-HELP) Social Media: Twitter(@ EbolaAlert), Facebook. com / EbolaAlert Web: Livechat on EbolaAlert. org
2. High Environmental and Personal Hygiene Standards Ebola is a largely hygiene challenge, all the way from the source( fruit bats and monkey meats) to humanto-human transmission. To keep Nigeria Ebola-free, we need to sustain proper cooking of our food. Ebola is not the only infectious disease contracted through badly cooked food; typhoid, hookworm, cholera all can be prevented when our food are properly cooked with clean hands. Proper hand hygiene is all that is necessary to prevent many deadly infections: by handwashing, and where this is not feasible, by alcohol hand rubs( sanitizers). Maintaining sound environmental hygiene is indeed a reflection of our personal hygiene standards too. We must ensure that our personal and public spaces, are always sanitized and frequently decontaminated. Our homes, schools, offices, eateries, cinemas, churches, mosques, hospitals, public toilets are spaces that come together to make our lives convenient and beautiful; they are also points of potential infection when not properly cared for. We must make sure they do not become
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problems to us. Whoever owns or is A basic history is all we need to responsible for those spaces must identify most Ebola suspect cases do everything possible to ensure that present to health facilities; so that appropriate materials and they can be reported early, spread of personnel required to achieve Ebola can be prevented, and chances excellent environment hygiene are of survival for affected persons deployed to those places. increased.
In addition, ensure universal 3. High Index of Suspicion for standard infection prevention Ebola control. Remember that clinical care We know now how lucky we were requires us to guard ourselves and that the late Patrick Sawyer was our patients from infectious identified early at First Consultant diseases. Hospital. This is why we
Clinicians can help immortalize the late Dr Adadevoh, # KeepNigeriaEbolaFree if they and why we remain grateful to the remain extremely vigilant and entire team at First Consultant: not # StayEbolaAlert. only for their great sacrifice, but also for suspecting and reporting 4. Sustained Government the case as early as they did. Collaboration We need our healthcare providers to The Nigerian collaboration towards retain the same, if not higher, level containing Ebola was a collective of suspicion. We at Ebola Alert have effort at all levels of government: developed a basic web application federal, state, local governments to guide you through Ebola case and MDAs. Beside the health sector, definition protocol, which you can the agriculture, technology, works find in the resources segment of the and education sectors played key website at check. EbolaAlert. org roles.
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