The panic over Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) ravaging part of West Africa and giving Nigerians sleepless nights may have got a cure if the claims by traditional healers under the aegis of the Otu Odozi Elu Doctors Association in Akumazi, Ika North East Local Government Area of Delta State, is anything to go by.
The traditional doctors numbering over 300 urged Nigerians not to panic but to bring to them any report cases of the disease, which they called isamisan disease to them.
The group led by the Okairoro of Akumazi, Chief Moses Dibie, said isamisan disease is an age long tropical disease which existed before the coming of the white people to African, adding that it the disease is older than yaws which the World Health Organisation (WHO) fought and defeated.
Corroborating this view, the Esame of Akumazi Kingdom, Chief Eric Ekabudike, said WHO should not mislead the people because EVD is a recurrence of isamisan or smallpox, which killed many children due to ignorance, poor living conditions, overcrowding and lack of adequate medical attention.
They said they had intensified efforts to make sure EVD does not get to Ika land or Delta State, calling on the Federal Government not to shy away from their potency and report any case to them for urgent treatment.
“Isamisan is a killer disease. We have treated it successfully before and we are ready to fight the scourge again. We thank Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan for picking some health institutions as isolated centres for treatment of the disease in Delta,” Ekabudike said.
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