Godwin Akor, Makurdi
Representative of the Nigerian Center for Disease Control (NCDC), Prof. Stephen Abah, has commended the Benue State Government for its commitment in the areas of funding, advocacy and information dissemination on Coronavirus.
Prof. Abah said during a presentation on Benue’s efforts on control and prevention of the disease that the state was faced with problems of porous borders and high rate of internally displaced persons.
He said that NCDC had trained over 200 health workers, including doctors and nurses, investigated 45 persons and 60 rumour cases.
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According to him, the center has also carried out 48 samples and did follow up on 30 staff of Grace Cottage Hospital who were quarantined for having contact with the index case.
While stating that the contact persons and hospital staff have all been discharged, Prof. Abah said Benue States needed to do more in the areas of clinical and isolation management, maintaining that it must prepare for the best care.
He, therefore, recommended that there should be expansion of testing by decentralising sample collection process and random sampling, improved laboratories, introduction of neighborhood watch, establishment of zonal treatment centres in the three senatorial zones of the State for increased efficiency and institutionalisation of use of face masks and strict observance to social distancing.
