The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has donated 1,000 doses of drugs to the Federal Capital Territory Primary Health Care Development Board to treat patients of Cerebrospinal Meningitis which has ravaged some states in the country.
Executive Secretary of the Board, Dr. Rilwanu Mohammed, who disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Thursday said the drugs have been distributed to health care centres and general hospitals in the FCT.
He said his board had carried out immunisation in all the 22 Internally Displaced Persons’ camps in Abuja because of their vulnerability to the disease.
He urged FCT residents to present themselves when they notice any symptoms of meningitis.
He also disclosed that six persons had died out of 10 suspected cases recorded in Abuja Municipality, Bwari and Kuje area councils.
Mohammed said the World Health Organization also donated three stereotyping machines to carry out screening for CSM in FCT.
He added that the machines were distributed to Maitama General Hospital, Jabi Medical Centre and University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada.
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