UNILORIN to screen all students for Ebola

Vice Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, Professor AbduGaniyu Ambali, on Monday announced that all students of the institutions will be screened for the Ebola Virus Disease before they are allowed to resume for the new academic session.

The students proceeded on end-of-session break before Patrick Sawyer brought the disease into the country in July.

Speaking at the university’s health centre while unveiling preventive kits worth N1.2m, Ambali said UNILIORIN was fully prepared to combat the disease.

        "The procurement of the
         anti-Ebola kits is part of the
         university’s preparedness to
         tackle the epidemic
         headlong," NAN quoted him
         as saying, adding that face
         masks, boots, hand gloves,
         automatic soap dispenser,
         infrared thermometer and
         disposable bed spreads were
         among the items that the
         institution procured to fight
         the disease.

He commended members of the institution’s Ebola response committee for their foresight and prompt response, charging the university’s health workers to be alert and to follow stipulated procedures in the case of an outbreak.

The university’s director of health services, Dr Mary Ajiboye, who presented the equipment to the Vice Chancellor, said the kits were
for the protection of staff and students.

       "The committee would place
         the hand sanitisers in
         strategic locations on the
         campus such as the Senate
         Building, faculties, walkways
         and Unilorin FM station," she
         said.

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