Lassa fever: NCDC monitoring team visits Edo

Lassa fever: NCDC monitoring team visits Edo

  • Commissioner pledges cooperation towards elimination

Edo State Commissioner for Health Prof. Obehi Akoria has assured the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) of the state’s resolve to strengthen its collaboration with the centre to address and completely eliminate lassa fever.

The Commissioner gave this assurance when she received the NCDC Research, Monitoring and Evaluation team, in her office recently in Benin City. The team was in the state to assess and collect data on the situation of Lassa fever there. 

Appreciating the NCDC efforts in the state, Prof. Akoria said the State Government has used multisectoral interventions to address the challenges of lassa fever in the State. 

She also commended the World Health Organisation (WHO) for the support given to the ministry of Health and said the Ministry is sustaining the interventions to prevent further outbreak of the disease.

Earlier, Roberts Adedryin, NCDC’s senior Research Monitoring and Evaluation officer gave a presentation on the overview of data collection activities of Lassa fever in Edo State. 

She thanked the State Government for the support in the mobilisation of respondents and data collection for the research. She described the project as a fact finding mission aimed at solving the problem of Lassa fever in Nigeria.

Edo state is one of the states affected by the recent outbreak of Lassa fever in Nigeria.

The state has since stepped up surveillance and prompt investigation of suspected cases, facilitating documentation of contacts, contact tracing and monitoring. It has also developed and disseminated public health advisory to raise awareness about the disease among residents of the state.  

 

About author

You might also like

Nigeria targets higher contraceptive prevalence rate

The Federal Government has assured it would lift the nation’s contraceptive prevalence rate, CPR (for family planning) from its present 10 percent to 36 percent in 2018. Director of Child

WORLD HEALTH 0 Comments

WHO raises alert on highly contagious meningitis outbreaks in African countries

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has raised the alert on Meningitis outbreaks in some African countries saying the outbreaks have become “an enormous public health threat.” Describing the outbreak in

BREAKING NEWS 0 Comments

Over 1m Nigerian PLWAs on treatment, NACA DG

The number of persons receiving treatment for HIV/AIDS has risen to one 1,150,000 from about 750,000 over a year ago, the Director-General, National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NASCA), Dr. Sani Aliyu has

0 Comments

No Comments Yet!

You can be first to comment this post!

Leave a Reply