Kwara Residents Urged To Go For Free Tuberculosis Screening

Date: 2018-04-05

The Kwara Government has urged residents of the state to avail themselves of the free Tuberculosis (TB) screening and treatment offered by it.

The Permanent Secretary, Kwara Ministry of Health, Mr Olaitan Adefila, made the call on Wednesday in Ilorin at a workshop organised by the ministry on the dangers of the disease.

Adefila said that with adequate measures taken by government and its partners against TB, it was expected that nobody should die of the disease again in the state.

He reminded the people that TB could be detected and treated free if they got screened.

According to him, any death resulting from TB in the state would be assumed a "self-inflicted suicide," since adequate care had been taken to prevent such death in the state.

"If anybody dies of the disease today in Kwara, we will presume it is a suicide and believe that the condition in the state does not warrant committing suicide.

"So, our people should leverage on the opportunity given by government and its supporters to ensure that they are TB free," he said.

Earlier, the Director of Public Health in the ministry, Dr Oluwatosin Fakayode, described TB as a chronic disease that had no respect for anybody or status.

Fakayode called on the people of the state to undergo the free test to ensure early detection and treatment.

The state TB and Leprosy Control Official, Dr Muhammad Oyeniyi, said that people could get free test and treatment for TB across the three senatorial districts of the state.

He listed the hospitals and health centres where the residents could receive free TB services to include General Hospital Ilorin, Sobi Specialist Hospital and Civil Service Hospital.

Others are General Hospital Kaiama, Jebba Specialist Hospital, General Hospital Omu-aran, General Hospital Offa, General Hospital Erinle and General Hospital Patigi, among others.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

AIT Ilorin     Hakeem Lawal     Ishak Mohammed Sabi     Samari     Oyun     Magaji Are     Oju Ekun Sarumi     Kawu Baraje     Jimoh Lambe Abdulkareem     Bamidele Aluko     COVID-19 Palliatives     Akume     Chief Imam Of Omu-Aran     Forgo Battery     Abdullahi Dasilva Yussuf     Waheed Ibrahim     Elerinjare     Dauda Adeniran Adeshola     Sabo-Oke     Adamu Jemilat-Baki     Kayode Issa     SWAN     Amusa Bello     Kwara State Geographic Information Service     Ilorin West     Olatunji Ayeni     Ilorin     Moshood Kashimawo Abiola     Ilorin Descendants Progressive Union     Teachers Specific Allowance     Jaiz Bank     MMWG     Muhammad Toyin Sanusi     Laboratory-to-Product     CLAY POT     Kayode Ishola     Kwara 2019     Kwha.gov.ng     Hikmah AbdulKareem     Suleiman Rotimi Iliasu     Kolade Solagberu     Rashidi Yekini     Kwara State Infrastructure Development Fund     Toyin Abdullahi     Bukola Ajikobi     Saeedat Aliyu     Kwara State Governor     Abdulfatai Salman Baakini     Yusuf Lanre Badmas     Eghe Igbinehi     Olupako Of Share     Ijagbo Health Centre     SSUCOEN     KWIRS     Joseph Alex Offorjama     Innocent Okoye     Dar-Al-Handasah Consultants     Jimba Babatunde     Ayo Adeyemi     Markaz Arabic And Islamic Training Institute, Agege     Abdulhakeem Adelaja Amao     Olaitan Adefila     Joseph Bamigboye     Abubakar Suleiman     Olusegun Adeniyi     Suwa-Arabs     Umar Sanda Yusuf     Kanu Agabi     Bello Abubakar     Transition Implementation Committee     BECE     Afin Descendants Union Of Odo-Owa     Kwabes     Vasolar-Kwara Company Ltd     Share     Simon Sayomi     Funmi Salau    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Kwara State Health Insurance Agency     Buhari     Abdullahi Dasilva Yussuf     John Olajide Adedipe     Kwara State Polytechnic     Isiaka AbdulRazaq     Muyiwa Oladipo Kanu     Valsolar-Kwara Company Limited     Abdulkareem Alabi     Jumoke Monsura Gafar     Oro Grammar School Old Students Association     Maimunat Oloriegbe     UNILORIN Alumni     Oba-Solagberu     Lanre Issa-Onilu     Universal Basic Education Commission     Yetunde Balogun     Shuaibu Yaman     Frootify     SSA Youth     KW-GIS     Durosinlohun Atiku     Yahaya Abdulkareem Babaita     Okin High School     Emir Of Kano     AbdulGaniyu Kareem     Isapa     Kwara Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board     Kwara Restoration Project     Sidikat Alaya     Ekiti     Ogbondoroko     Senate     GGDSS Pakata     Akeem Lawal     Kwara TV     Nigeria Customs Service     Lanre Jimoh     Ibrahim Sulu Gambari     Kale Ayo     Samuel Elizabeth Keatswa     Principal Private Secretary     ER-KANG Mining     Jebba     Gbemi Saraki     N-Power     Aisha Ahman Pategi     Monsurat Omotosho     Kwara Basketball Association     Abubakar Usman Jos     ER-KANG Mining Nigeria Company Limited     Dar-Al-Handasah Consultants     Abdulrazaq Adebayo     Tunji Folami     Iliasu     Tunde Yusuf     Aliyu Sabi     Olokoba Abdullahi Ayinla     Chief Imam Of Lafiagi     Tunji Oyawoye     Yahya Mohammed     Femi Ogunsola     Apado     Offa Poly     Rotimi Samuel Olujide     Sheikh Hamzat Yusuf Ariyibi     Aro Yahaya     Makama Of Kaiama     Abegunde Goke     Gbadeyan Gbadura Yomi     Amuda Aluko     Vasolar     ER-KANG     Alao Ayotunde     Orire     Aisha Gobir     Joseph Daudu