850 Soldiers To Be Quarantined On Return From Liberia
About 850 Nigerian soldiers currently in Liberia on a peace keeping
mission are set to be quarantined upon return to Nigeria to ensure that
the Ebola Virus Disease is not reintroduced into the country
About 850 Nigerian peacekeeping troops serving in Ebola-ravaged Liberia will be quarantined for 28 days when they return to the country, Punch reports.
The
soldiers were originally due to return to Nigeria in January 2015 but
their homecoming has reportedly been postponed till March 2015.
Liberia has been battling a severe Ebola outbreak since March and as a precaution, the soldiers will be quarantined in Gwagwalada, Abuja before being allowed to resume their normal duties.
A source reportedly said:
“You know that our soldiers in Liberia are to return to the country from two mission areas, Liberia and Sudan.
“The
men of the Nigerian Army Battalion 43, in Sudan, will arrive in the
country in December, and may be allowed to go their units on arrival in
the country.
“But the arrival of their
counterparts from Liberia, who were initially supposed to arrive in the
country in January, will be delayed. The UN has not approved their
movement so they will leave Liberia for Nigeria in March.”
“Another
thing is that even when they arrive in the country, they will be kept
at a military barracks being built at Gwagwalada for 28 days before they
are released to go to their units.
“I
think the authorities are just being careful; there is no intent to
demoralise anybody because we all know the dangers of this Ebola Virus
Disease.”
This comes after the Head of the Nigerian Army Medical Corps, Major-General Obashina Ogunbiyi, announced
that over 1000 Nigerian soldiers had been quarantined in Liberia after
coming in contact with an Ebola-infected Sudanese man.
Ebola was brought into Nigeria by Liberian, Patrick Sawyer but the disease has been successfully contained and the World Health Organization is set to issue an official clearance to the country on October 20.
Source:Jola Sotubo pulse.ng, Re-posted by Abdulgafar Abdulrauf Adio (www.econsforumnews.blogspot.com)
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