Kaduna govt puts medical rapid response teams on alert over diphtheria disease threats

Kaduna State Government has confirmed that Rapid Response Medical Teams person been enactment connected alert successful the lawsuit of an outbreak of the deadly diphtheria illness successful the state.

The Rapid Response Teams are mandated to transportation retired surveillance, progressive lawsuit searches and interaction tracing, pursuing the rising cases of diphtheria outbreaks successful neighbouring states.

Director of Public Health successful Kaduna, Dr Abubakar Sadiq Idris, portion confirming the improvement connected Thursday, said the improvement has been brought to the attraction of the government, prompting a swift determination to curb its imaginable spread.

According to him, suspected cases reported successful the authorities had been successfully managed, portion measures person been enactment successful spot to negociate further cases astatine the Infectious Disease Centre successful Mando and different secondary healthcare facilities.

The aesculapian doc said the authorities wellness authorities were besides moving intimately with the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, NCDC, and the Kaduna State Primary Health Care Board to unafraid further drugs and aesculapian commoditi...