The Director-General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Abdulsalam Nasidi, says the Federal Government will soon establish an Ebola Survival Clinic in Lagos or Ibadan.

Fielding questions from journalists on the first anniversary of declaration of Nigeria Ebola-free in Abuja on Tuesday, Mr. Nasidi said doctors that defeated Ebola in Lagos would be used to quickly establish the proposed clinic.

He said the survival clinic by the NCDC would work in collaboration with tertiary health institutions to address the issue of relapse in survival.

“The clinic has the component of the follow-up, where we will be monitoring what happens to Ebola survivors daily,’’ he said.

According to Mr. Nasidi, the idea of survival clinics was conceived by the NCDC in Sierra Leone.

“The clinic was established by the Nigeria contingent to assist survivors in Sierra Leone, and it has gone a long way in bringing us to proper understanding what is happening to Ebola survivors.

“But in Nigeria, we do not practice it. We have come to realise with all the relapses and new pattern of epidemiology of Ebola, that we should now establish the clinic in Nigeria.’’

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