The
Supervising Minister of Health, Dr. Khaliru Alhassan, will be among top
government functionaries, diplomats, development partners and private sector
chieftains that will be at the formal departure ceremony of 250 Nigerian
volunteers in Lagos today.
The
volunteers will be offering services to contain the Ebola Virus Disease, EVD,
in the neighbouring West African countries of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra
Leone.
Others
expected at the function include the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador
Aminu Wali and the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Dr. Nkosazana
Dlamini-Zuma.
They are
part of a team of a 1000-strong health personnel force being deployed under the
African Union Support to Ebola Outbreak in West Africa, ASEOWA.
The team
consists of doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other cadre of health
professionals.
A high
point of the departure programme is the official launch of the Africa Against
Ebola Resource Mobilisation Campaign, under a partnership between the African
Union and the private sector.
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