Worried by
the prevailing outbreak of Cerebrospinal meningitis, which has claimed
over 400 lives in northern Nigeria, Plateau State Commissioner for
Health, Dr. Kuden Kamshak has disclosed that the Sultan of Sokoto,
Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III, has summoned all the 19 northern governors
to a meeting. The parley, he said, is to seek alternative ways of
importing vaccines.
Kamshak stated this, yesterday, during a
media briefing in Jos, to mark the 2017 World Health Day. He said the
meeting will hold today to find ways of preventing the spread of the
killer disease.
“The recent outbreak of cerebrospinal
meningitis in some northern states in Nigeria and the appearance of type
C stereotype of Neisseria meningitis organism, as against the type A
strain, calls for concerted effort to curb further spread of the
disease.
“The Sultan of Sokoto has summoned the
Northern Governors Forum to a meeting in Kaduna, on Tuesday (today), to
find a way of importing vaccines to prevent the spread of the disease.
“From the recent briefing we had with
Federal Government, there are only 5,000 vaccines, globally, for
cerebrospinal meningitis and Nigeria, alone, has applied for 800,000,
which is not enough to curb the outbreak of the disease in the North,”
Kamshak said. He noted that the federal government, at the weekend, said
about 328 persons had died from the outbreak of the disease that has
affected 16 states and 90 Local Government Areas. Kamshak confirmed
three cases in the Children’s ward of Plateau Specialists Hospital, Jos,
and advised people to avoid overcrowded premises and be sleeping in
well ventilated and properly lighted houses.
He urged Plateau residents, in the case
of Lassa Fever resurgence, to observe personal hygiene, environmental
sanitation and avoid bush burning and eating left over foods suspected
to be contaminated by rats droppings.
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