The federal government of Nigeria has banned banned movement of dead bodies from one state of the federation to another for burial.
Minister of state for Health, Dr. Khalliru Alhassan who disclosed this during the opening of the 3rd quarter meeting of the Northern Traditional Leaders Committee on Primary Health Care Delivery at Africa House in Kano on Saturday said all dead bodies would be buried wherever they died so that the chances of transporting the problems either from within or outside would be curtailed.
“We institute a control measures, henceforth dead bodies will not be allowed to be transported from one part of the country to another” he said.
The minister added that the federal government suspended bringing corpse from outside the country, the three African countries of Sierre Leone, Liberia in particular, saying in case of any Nigerian who may died in the infected countries should be buried there, regardless of his position.
Dr. Khalliru Alhassan noted that Kano business community is at risk of contracting Ebola virus considering that they receive businessmen and women from many West African countries daily and visits their countries as well.
