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.

Ilorin South Constituency     Ezekiel Yissa Benjamin     20 Billion Bond     Aliyu Kora Sabi     Dele Momodu     Metro Park     Nagode     Monkey Pox     Idowu Laro     George Funsho Adebayo     COEASU     Muhammadu Gobir     Innocent Okoye     Valsolar Consortium     Firdaos Amasa     Femi Oladiji     Aliyu Sabi     Oba Of Jebba     Aso Ofi     Women Radio     Popo-Igbonna     Suleiman Rotimi Iliasu     Ahmad Olanrewaju Belgore     Agboola Babatunde     Makama     Olomu Of Omu-Aran     Yusuf Abdulraheem     Magaji Erubu     Owo Arugbo     Abdulrahman Abdulrasak     KWTV     Hijab     Charcoal     Owu Fall     Arik     Mufti Of Ilorin     Kwabes     Alfa Modibbo Belgore     Overland     Okoolowo     Sabi     Jani Ibrahim     Imodoye Writer’s Enclave     Lawyers Unite Against Corruption     Wahab Issa     Yahaya Jibril Usman     Lawal Jimoh     Ubandawaki     Taofeek Sanusi     Kuliyan Geri     Ifelodun     Basit Olatunji     Doyin Group     Maimunat Oloriegbe     Olusola Saraki     Gbadeyan Gbadura Yomi     Col. Taiwo     Ilorin International Airport     Mohammed Ibrahim     Abdul Jimoh Mohammed     Abdullah Janet Amudat     Alimi Abdulrazaq     Idris Amosa Oladipo Saidu     Mary Kemi Adeosun     Leke Ogungbe     Twitter     Onilorin     KWSUED     Emir Of Lafiagi     Smart School     Kwara State Pension Board     Oluwole Dupe     Odo-Owa     Akeem Olatunji     Ibrahim Kayode Adeyemi     Ojuekun Sarumi     Bashiru Makama    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Kola Ologbondiyan     Abdulmumini Jawondo     Toun Okewale-Sonaiya     Bukola Ajikobi     Sabo-Oke     11th Galadima     Plat Technologies     Alanamu     Gobir Organization Foundation     Al-Adaby     Public Holiday     KWSIEC     Ibrahim Abikan     Tosho Yaqub     Balogun Ajikobi     Kwara State University Of Education     Abiodun Jacob Ajiboye     Malete     Mansurat Amuda-Kannike     Funmilayo Braithwaite     Kishira     Abdulquawiy Olododo     Alikinla     Gbajabiamila     Abdulwahab Olarewaju Issa     Oro Grammar School Old Students Association     Bola Ahmed Tinubu     Hajj     Garba Idris Ajia     Dele Belgore     Soffiyyallah Kamaldeen     Abdulkadir Jimoh     Hausa     Mahmud Ayinla Giwa     Musbau A. Akanji     Ajase-Ipo     Kwara Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board     Olatunji Ayeni     Amos Sayo     First Lady     Isiaka Rafiu Mope     National Association Of Nigerian Students     Laduba     Ilota     Al-Ilory     Saadu Yusuf     Emir Of Yashikira     Sidikat Alaya     Yusuf Lanre Badmus     Ibraheem Adeola Katibi     Gbadeyan Gbadura Yomi     Gobir     Sherif Sagaya     Sabi     Jimoh Akani     Ahmed Alhasssan     Issa Oloruntogun     Olawuyi     Dan Iya     Oluronke Adeyemi     Bola Tinubu     Modupe Oluwole     NTA Ilorin     Ganmo     Afonja     Sheikh Ridhwanullah El-ilory     Funmilayo Zubair     Tunji Folami     Musa Ayinla Yeketi     Ahmed Bolaji Nagode     Kumbi Titilope     Aliyu U. Tilde     Abdulganiyu Oladosu     Hamidat Sulyman-Yusuf     Abdulrahman Abdullahi Kayode     Abdulraufu Mustapha     Adam Abdullahi Al-Ilory