Seadogs sensitise Kwara residents on Lassa fever

Date: 2017-09-13

National Association of Seadogs (Pyrates Confraternity) has gone round major markets and motor parks in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, sensitising traders and transporters on Lassa fever.

The seadogs were at Ipata and Mandate markets, Maraba Motor Park and others distributing fliers and creating awareness on the devastating effect of the disease.

Speaking with reporters in Ilorin, the state chair of the confraternity's medial unit, Tunde Dairo said in the last three months no fewer than 11 lives were lost to the disease across the country.

Dairo said, "We want to create awareness on Lassa fever in Kwara State. We are sensitising the public on the need to cultivate a clean and environmental friendly habit to nip cases of lassa fever in the bud. In Nigeria as a whole we have recorded about eleven deaths from lassa fever. Three cases were discovered in Ifelodun Local Government Area of Kwara State and the state government claimed that one case was recorded.

"Cases of the disease were prevalent in Southsouth and Southwest regions of the country. The preventive measures that we know include avoidance of rodents which is the primary source of infection; wearing of protective materials when caring for infected persons and sensitisation on the public on how to store their foodstuff in their houses.

"There is little government can do, but we on our part, because we mingle with the people, are carrying out this sensitisation campaigns to the Mandate Market, Maraba, Ipata Market and other public places in Ilorin metropolis.

"This campaign by our association will be done in major towns and cities of Nigeria just to create awareness on the menace of the disease."

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Oba David Oyerinola Adedunmoye     Nurudeen Mohammed     Bolakale Ayo     Idris Amosa Saidu     Shade Omoniyi     Olaitan Adefila     Erin-ile     Wale Oladepo     Minimum Wage     Post-utme     Aisha Ahman Pategi     Nigeria Customs Service     Tunji Moronfoye     Aso-ofi     Abdulrazaq Sanni     Tunde Mukaila Mustapha     AbdulKareem Yusuf Danhawa     Y.A. Abdulkareem     Moses Afolayan     Gbemisola Saraki     Joseph Daudu     Wahab Olasupo Egbewole     International Vocational Centre     Abiodun Oyedepo     Jeunkunu-Malete-Bani     Lotus Bank     Matthew Babaoye     Kwara Central     Mohammed Abdulahi     Olokoba Abdullahi Ayinla     Femi Agbaje     David Adesina     Akanji     Afolabi-Oshatimehin     Muslim Media Watch Group Of Nigeria     Barakat Community Secondary School     NFAI     Shehu Jimoh     Kwara     Sarah Jubril     AbdulHamid Adi     Radio Kwara     Sa\'adu Salahu     Abdulmumini Sanni Jawondo     Kwara State Geographic Information Service     Jide Oyinloye     Sunday Popo-Ola     Bio Ibrahim     The Herald     Jimoh Bashir     Iliasu     Village Alive Development Association     Lawyers Unite Against Corruption     Belgore     ITEM 7     Diagnostic Centre     Micheal Imoudu     Baaziki Sulaiman     Mustapha Akanbi     Fatai Olodo     Onilorin     Bamidele Adegoke     Donatus Ejidike     Kumbi Titilope     Bola Sagaya     COEASU     Adisa Logun     Ayinde Oyepitan     IHS Towers     Tunji Arosanyin     Abdulkareem Alabi     Nagode     Ilorin Metro Park     Gani Saadu     Afolabi-Oshatimehin Adenike Harriet     Abdulwasiu Bolaji Adeyi     Gbugbu    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Tunji Olawuyi     Joseph Alex Offorjama     Olokoba     Olaiya Victor Mobolaji     Col. Adedipe     Bello Abubakar     Local Government     Mohammed Tunde-Jimoh     Jani Ibrahim     Erin-ile     Saka Balikis Kehinde     Abdulganiyu AbdulAzeez     Mahmud Ayinla Giwa     Shehu Alimi Foundation For Peace And Development     Patigi Regatta     Baakini     Edu     NSCIA     Riskat Opakunle     Mumeen Lah     Umar Yakubu Jaja     Ike Ekweremadu     Taofeek Sanusi     Ajibike Katibi     Muslim Media Watch Group Of Nigeria     CELF     Sunday Popo-Ola     Binta Abubakar Mora     Sam Onile     Yahaya Seriki Gambari     Quarry Royal Valley     Moshood Bakare     Aisha Ahman Pategi     Tunde Idiagbon Road     Press Release     AGF Abdulrazaq     Sadiq Umar     IHS Towers     Ethical College     Sa\'adu Salau     Wahab Olasupo Egbewole     Mohammed Kamaludeen     Kwara State Branch Of The National Library     Mubarak Oladosu     Samuel Elizabeth Keatswa     Taofik Abdulkareem     Nigerian Medical Association     Ajeigbe     Tsaragi     Abubakar Bature Sulu-Gambari     Kudirat Arinola Lawal     Ilorin Durbar     Ibrahim Issa Jetti     Gani Saadu     Undergraduate Bursary     Abdulrahman Iliasu     Razaq Ayobami Akanbi     Yashikira     Toyin Falola     State Bureau Of Internal Revenue     Ekiti     Oba Abdulraheem     Kunbi Titiloye     Saka Saadu     Frootify     Balogun Gambari     Islamic Development Bank     Balogun-Ojomu     Aremu Bose Deborah     Budo Egba     Centre For Digital Economy     Labaeka     Yomi Adeboye     Diagnostic Centre     Sobi Specialist Hospital     Obayomi Azeez     Okin High School