There
was a large turn out of pupils and students as both public and private
schools in Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, resumed for a new academic
session on Wednesday after a forced, prolonged holiday occasioned by the
Ebola Virus Disease outbreak.
In some of the schools visited by our correspondent, the students were seen beaming with smiles as life returned to the schools.
The
various schools had also prepared to prevent an outbreak of Ebola by
procuring thermometers to check the temperature of the students before
allowing them into school premises.
All the schools visited prepared extensively for their students’ protection from the virus.
During PM.News'
visit to various schools, buckets, hand washing bowls and screening of
pupils for high temperature were being carried out in the schools by
school principals, teachers and other workers.
While some schools
conducted the temperature tests at the gates, others did so at the
assembly ground in order to ensure that none of the students was left
out.
Parents and guardians that entered the school premises were also tested and asked to wash their hands.
Hand sanitizers were provided and every visitor that walked through the school gates had his or her temperature checked.
All
visitors including parents, students and teachers were asked to wash
their hands after which sanitizer was applied before any further
interaction took place.
In July this year, there was an Ebola
outbreak in Nigeria after a Liberian-American, Patrick Sawyer brought
the haemorraghic disease into the country.
Doctors and other
health workers who had primary contact with Sawyer at First Consultants
Hospital, Obalende, Lagos, contracted the deadly disease. Some of them
recovered after they were quarantined while others, including Dr. Stella
Adadevoh, died.
Another doctor in Port Harcourt, southern
Nigeria, also died after contracting the disease before Nigeria
successfully contained it in Lagos and Port Harcourt.
Credit: PM News
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