Nigeria, Uganda collaborating to contain Ebola — Health Minister

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru

The Presidential Task Force on Ebola said on Wednesday that the Nigerian government is collaborating with its Ugandan counterpart to contain any outbreak of Ebola.

The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Muhammad Ali Pate, disclosed this while fielding questions from journalists at the end of a meeting at the Office of the Chief of Staff to the President, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila.

Asked to react to the statement credited to Ugandan authorities that the country does not have any case of Ebola, contrary to reports that a Nigerian woman contracted the virus in Uganda, the Minister said:
“All I can tell you is that we are collaborat...