The Benue State authorities has positioned its well being system on excessive alert following the recorded case of Ebola in Abuja, sustaining that it was taking steps to stop the illness from discovering it foot within the state.
Speaking with LEADERSHIP Weekend in Makurdi yesterday, the state commissioner for well being and human providers, Dr. Paul Ogwuche, mentioned there was no case of Ebola within the state.
Ogwuche mentioned as a part of efforts to stop Ebola, the federal government had strengthened illness surveillance throughout all of the 23 native authorities areas of the state.
He mentioned, “The safety of the well being and lifetime of the individuals of Benue State is our utmost precedence as a ministry and we’re taking the mandatory steps that can be certain that Ebola doesn’t get a foothold in our state.
“We don’t have any case but however we’ve got the accountability as a ministry to behave proactively and strengthen our preventive measures and be certain that our surveillance and response methods are able to detect and include any potential threats earlier than it develops into an outbreak.
“So for us in the ministry of health and human services, Benue state we focus on certain critical interventions that will know who help us in a time of an outbreak like this. This is not the first time”
“Our disease surveillance has been reinforced across all the 23 local government areas of Benue State,” he added.
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