Kwara State organises sensitisation campaign on Lassa fever

Date: 2016-01-26

The Kwara State Government says it has concluded plans to organise a campaign and sensitisation programme on the advent of Lassa fever outbreak in some states in the federation.

The state commissioner for Health, Alhaji Atolagbe Alege disclosed this in Ilorin while speaking with VON in an interview.

Alhaji Alege said posters have been sent to various local government areas of the state to display and sensitise the people of the state of the type of specie of the rat carrying the virus of the Lassa fever.

The commissioner said the disease called for concern but reemphasised that Kwarans should not panic of any possibility of the outbreak of the disease in the state as precautionary measures have been taken by the State government while the drugs for the cure of Lassa fever, Ripatrin has been procured in abundance.

Alhaji Alege however, urged the people of the state to be cautious and take any patient with acute malaria fever, constant coughing or bleeding from various parts of the body to the nearest standard hospital or to Sobi or General Hospital Ilorin for proper examination.

He also announced that medical personnel has been appointed as the desk officer that is saddled with any possible out break of the disease in the state stressing that the state government is always responsive and proactive to any possible outbreak of diseases.

The commissioner, however, called on Kwarans to keep a clean environment and avoid any contact with rats warning also that the disease is contagious.

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