The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), has
said that seven suspected pox cases have been recorded in four FCT Hospitals
with samples of six victims taken and sent to Senegal for test and
confirmation.
Briefing newsmen on the incident in Abuja yesterday, the
secretary, FCTA Health and Human Services Secretariat (HHSS), Amanda Pam, said
the “three suspected cases were recorded in National Hospital, two in Gwarinpa
General Hospital, one each in University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada
and Nyanya General Hospital.”
“Though we have some suspected cases, but samples were
collected and sent to the lab. So we are waiting for the results but from all
indications, it is not monkey pox.
“But I think I like the suspicion because it’s better to suspect
than to ignore it and it later turns out to be positive. The truth now is that
there is no confirmed case of monkey pox disease in FCT,” she stressed.
Explaining further, the acting director, Public Health FCT,
Humphrey Okoroukwu, disclosed that surveillance officers from the Public Health
Department of the FCTA are being deployed to the 62 wards of the territory, as
a precautionary measure against threatening health issues.
Recall that the federal government through Nigeria Centre
for Disease Control, (NCDC), had on Monday, confirmed suspected outbreak of
monkey pox in seven states in Nigeria – Bayelsa, Rivers, Ekiti, Akwa Ibom,
Lagos, Ogun and Cross River states.
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