There was jubilation at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife in Osun State as the authorities barred students from Liberia and other West African countries hit by the Ebola virus from returning to the institution for now.
The Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof. Bamitale Omole, who said this at a press conference on Thursday, also announced that the result of the tests carried out on the blood sample of a female student of the university was negative.
The student, who took ill in the university was a secondary contact of the Port Harcourt, Rivers State doctor, Iyke Enemuo, who died of the EVD recently.
He said, “We have asked some foreign students not to resume. Students from Liberia have been asked not to resume and they have not resumed.”
The Vice-Chancellor added that the institution authorites had bought infrared thermometers to measure temperature of students and staff as another measure to make the OAU Ebola free.
He also said that an EVS Surveillance and Monitoring unit where suspected cases of the EVD could be reported had been established.
Omole said that the female student whose blood sample was tested walked to the university’s Health Centre and volunterred information about her contact with the late doctor.
Omole added that he contacted the Minister of Health, Prof. Onyeabuchi Chukwu, after which a special ambulance was sent to evacuate her from the OAU to Lagos.
The Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof. Bamitale Omole, who said this at a press conference on Thursday, also announced that the result of the tests carried out on the blood sample of a female student of the university was negative.
The student, who took ill in the university was a secondary contact of the Port Harcourt, Rivers State doctor, Iyke Enemuo, who died of the EVD recently.
He said, “We have asked some foreign students not to resume. Students from Liberia have been asked not to resume and they have not resumed.”
The Vice-Chancellor added that the institution authorites had bought infrared thermometers to measure temperature of students and staff as another measure to make the OAU Ebola free.
He also said that an EVS Surveillance and Monitoring unit where suspected cases of the EVD could be reported had been established.
Omole said that the female student whose blood sample was tested walked to the university’s Health Centre and volunterred information about her contact with the late doctor.
Omole added that he contacted the Minister of Health, Prof. Onyeabuchi Chukwu, after which a special ambulance was sent to evacuate her from the OAU to Lagos.
The bad habit chancellor said, "Spin-off of a prior discharge on a female understudy of the OAU , who was suspected to have been an auxiliary contact with EVD and who was sent to the Ebola Isolation Center in Lagos for further clinical and research center examination, the college powers are euphoric to publish that the aftereffect of the preparatory and affirming tests demonstrated negative.
"The college powers in this way wish to educate the college group and the overall population that the preparatory results and the affirming tests demonstrated negative.
"Subsequently, this college is EVD free.
"In this way, everybody is charged to go about their ordinary exercises unreservedly without alarm or frenzy. On the other hand, as anticipation is superior to cure, parts of the college group and the overall population are encouraged to keep up standard hygenic prudent measures as settled by the college Ebola Surveillance Committee."
The bad habit chancellor said that the understudy who was still in Lagos would continue soon and no one would disparage her.
"The college powers in this way wish to educate the college group and the overall population that the preparatory results and the affirming tests demonstrated negative.
"Subsequently, this college is EVD free.
"In this way, everybody is charged to go about their ordinary exercises unreservedly without alarm or frenzy. On the other hand, as anticipation is superior to cure, parts of the college group and the overall population are encouraged to keep up standard hygenic prudent measures as settled by the college Ebola Surveillance Committee."
The bad habit chancellor said that the understudy who was still in Lagos would continue soon and no one would disparage her.
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