Browsing: Lassa fever

NAN reports that the Council is charged with the responsibilities to regulate the practice of medicine, dentistry and alternative medicine in the most efficient manner that safeguards best healthcare delivery for the populace

NAN reports that the first case of Lassa fever was diagnosed at LUTH on January 15 on a 25-year-old student of the Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Kaduna State (names withheld)

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This information was released on Friday by the Lagos State Ministry of Health

The state Commissioner for Health, Kuden Dayin, told the News Agency of Nigeria that the victims died at the Jos University Teaching Hospital on Saturday

This development was confirmed on Monday following the report of a case in Asaba, the Delta State capital, and another in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital

The position of the Congress was stated on Monday by its Rivers State Chairman, Comrade Hyginus Chika Onuegbu, in a statement

He decried the emergency response arrangement set up by the government to tackle outbreak of any epidemic of this nature.
Askira said such outbreaks do not require ad hoc arrangements or committees

The meeting, which will also witness the inauguration of the National Lassa Fever Action Committee, will take place at the Rotunda Hall of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday

The Speaker, in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Musbau Rasak, urged Lagosians to remain calm as the state government has not only put its health workers on the alert to combat the disease, but also possesses the necessary medical institutions and equipment to tackle the disease

This was contained in a statement released by Dr Jide Idris, the Lagos State commissioner for Health, and made available to news men.
Idris said in the statement: “Ahmmadiyyah Hospital where the first case of the disease in Lagos was reported is now under surveillance and there will be no service delivery in the facility until further notice

At Garki, Utako and Wuse Markets, rat poison sellers were seen brandishing their products and winning the attention of eager customers, who before the Lassa feveroutbreak never paid attention to the products

“Foods and water should be properly covered; all foods should be cooked thoroughly and to store foodstuffs in rodent proof containers; block all rat hideouts,” the statement said

Addressing journalists at the Alausa Secretariat, Ikeja on the first case of the disease recorded in the state, the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, said in line with international standards, 92 persons who had direct and indirect contact with the index case are currently being followed-up

Razak Adeofalade, the Chairman of the union, stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos

The commissioner said the medical doctor, who died after contracting the disease, had been buried after consultations with the family.
Odagme said the doctor died at a hospital outside Port Harcourt and that contacts he had hours before his death were among those under observation

The CMD was reacting to the rumour making the rounds that some health workers at the hospital took to their heels when a suspected Lassa fever patient was brought to the hospital

This brings to three the number of people killed so far by the disease in the state

Also, as part of an immediate measures to curb the spread, no fewer than 35 persons that the victim may have come in contact with are now being traced in Abuja

The latest death from Lassa fever brings the total number of deaths to 43 in the country

The Senate, just back from Christmas and New Year breaks, urged the Federal Government, health agencies and non-governmental organisations to carry out aggressive sensitisation in affected states