The Ogun
State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Olaokun Soyinka, on Thursday said the state
government had written a letter to the authorities of the Redeemed Christian
Church of God to take precautionary measure against the spread of the deadly
Ebola Virus Disease during the RCCG annual convention which started on Monday.
Soyinka said
this in Abeokuta, the state capital, while addressing a press conference on the
preventive measures being taken by the state.
The
commissioner said the letter was sent to the RCCG authorities last Friday, and
that the government requested the General Overseer, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, to
pass the information to the congregation about Ebola in order to guard against
its spread.
He said, “We
wrote a letter and sent a team to the Redeemed Christian Church of God, because
they are having their annual convention. We asked them to make sure they are
vigilant.
“We wrote
them last week Friday and reminded them of the dreaded Ebola virus and we
commended them for what they have been doing. We asked Pastor Enoch Adeboye to
pass the general information on Ebola to the congregation.”
Soyinka
further said the state governor, Ibikunle Amosun, had instructed the health ministry
to interact with Muslim and Christian leaders and any other groups that have
large crowd.
While he
explained that the state had started training programme for health officials in
local government areas, he noted that the state was already collaborating with
Federal Government agencies in the border areas to prevent carriers of the
virus from entering the state.
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