Nigerian public sector doctors on
Thursday suspended a nearly five-week long strike over an Ebola outbreak, which
has killed two people and infected five others in Lagos. A statement from the
Nigeria Medical Association listed “the incursion of Ebola into Nigeria” as a
main reason for suspending the strike.
The emergence of Ebola in Lagos, sub-Saharan Africa’s
largest city with more than 20 million people, has created further panic over
the worst ever outbreak of the deadly tropical disease.
The densely packed city has a weak public health system,
which experts say is poorly equipped to manage a significant number of Ebola
patients.
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