FG deploys 500,000 Diphtheria vaccine doses to Kano, Katsina

The Federal Government has deployed 500,000 doses of diphtheria vaccines to Kano and Katsina states arsenic portion of exigency measures to incorporate an outbreak of the disease.

The Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare disclosed this successful a connection issued connected Friday, saying the vaccines were deployed done the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) to enactment intensified immunisation successful affected communities and different areas considered to beryllium astatine risk.

According to the ministry, the involution forms portion of an exigency effect activated by the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Muhammad Ali Pate, aimed astatine containing the outbreak and strengthening Nigeria’s wide effect to diphtheria.

As portion of the response, the Federal Government has besides acceptable up a multi-agency exigency task unit comprising the NPHCDA, affected authorities governments and planetary wellness partners.

The task unit volition beryllium co-chaired by the Director-General of the NCDC and the Director of Public Health. Its rank includes the commissioners of wellness from Katsina, Kano, Zamfara and Sokoto states, arsenic good arsenic representatives of the World Health Organisation (WHO), UNICEF and the National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control Programme successful K...