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 said , “ Sequel to an earlier release on a female student of the OAU , who was suspected to have been a secondary contact with EVD and who was sent to the Ebola Isolation Centre in Lagos for further clinical and laboratory investigation, the university authorities are happy to announce that the result of the
preliminary and confirmatory tests
proved negative .
“ The university authorities therefore wish to inform the university community and the general public that the preliminary results and the confirmatory tests proved negative . “ Consequently , this university is EVD free .
“ Therefore , everyone is enjoined to go about their normal activities freely without fear or panic. However, as prevention is better than cure, members of the university community and the general public are advised to maintain standard hygenic precautionary measures as
established by the university Ebola
Surveillance Committee .”
The vice - chancellor said that the
student who was still in Lagos would
resume soon and nobody would
stigmatise her .
By:Nigeriacamera
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