The
suspected victim of monkey pox in Gboko has been moved to the Benue State
Teaching Hospital (BSUTH)
The woman identified as Wuese Alough disclosed that she must have
contacted the disease from her boyfriend who visited her from Enugu a few weeks
ago.
Commissioner for Health and Human Services, Dr. Cecelia Ojabo, who
spoke with newsmen, on Wednesday, disclosed that on receiving the report of the
suspected case, she immediately deployed medical doctors to Gboko to get the
victim and move her to the hospital for further medical investigation.
Dr. Ojabo explained that the blood sample of the suspected victim would
be taken for necessary laboratory analysis to confirm whether or not they were
indeed a case of Monkey pox or not even as she called on people of the state
not to panic but remain calm as necessary measures were in place to protect
them from the disease.
She pointed out that the state government had, long before now,
shown serious concern over the outbreak of the virus in other parts of the
country, and that was why it embarked on serious sensitisation campaigns on how
to people can guide against contacting.
The Commissioner appealed to anyone who sees and suspects Monkey
Pox to immediately report same to the nearest medical facility for prompt
action and advised the people to abstain from consumption of any form of Bush
meat, particularly monkey, rat, squirrel, stressing that they should also
reduce handshake as these preventive measures would go a long way in preventing
it’s spread.
Ojabo also called on Medical personnel to have a high index of
suspicion of all fever of unknown origin and make necessary referral to the
infectious Unit of the Benue State Teaching Hospital.
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