The
Dangote Foundation has pledged to donate $3m to a fund established by the
African Union to contain the Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa.
The
President, Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote. made the pledge on behalf of the
Foundation in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, during a meeting with some AU business
leaders
.
This
was contained in a statement on Tuesday by the Dangote Foundation.
The
AU Ebola Fund was set up in response to the African Union Chairperson, Dr.
Nkosazana Zuma’s call for $30m from Africa’s private sector to support the
efforts of the AU in containing the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
According
to the statement, the funds would be used to send 1,000 African health workers,
such as doctors, epidemiologists, nurses and lab technologists to join ongoing
efforts to stop the Ebola outbreak in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Inadequacy
of professional and trained health workers has been identified as the key
factor limiting the Ebola containment efforts in the three countries.
The
statement said Aliko Dangote commended the business leaders for their speedy
response to the AU’s call. He also encouraged more business leaders and the
general public to contribute to the Fund.
According
to Punch Newspaper, Dangote said, “Ebola continues to devastate and take away
lives in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. There must be no let-up in urgently
matching solidarity and moral support with faster and more strategic actions.
None of us can sleep easy until Ebola is contained.
Let’s
hope that Ebola will soon be contained now that it has gotten the attention of
the whole world no thanks to the Liberian Government for sending Ebola human
missiles to Nigeria and USA
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