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FCT minister, Mallam Muhammad Musa Bello
By Anthony Maliki
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has taken several measures to stop the spread of Cholera as well as provide the highest level of care to those affected by the disease.
This was contained in a statement on Friday by Senior Special Assistant on Media to FCT Minister, Abubakar Sani to Apex News Exclusive.
According to the statement, some of the measures already taken were early as May 2021 when FCT started having the diarrheal disease.
The measures include formation of Cholera Emergency Operation Centres and appointment of an Incidence Manager and other relevant medical personnel along with Stakeholders from the FCT Water Board, Abuja, Environmental Protection Board, Rural Water and Sanitation Agency (RUWASA) etc, who are also in the team and prepositioning of drugs and consumables for the free treatment of all identified cases in both Secondary and Primary Care Facilities of the FCT.
Others are provision of free portable water through water tankers from the FCT Water Board to all affected communities, training and sensitization of Health Care Providers in both Secondary and Primary Healthcare facilities including some private ones and community sensitization on causes and means of treating and prevention of Cholera.
“All communities that have outbreak are being visited and monitored by relevant medical personnel and other stakeholders.”
Also the measures are sensitization of the general public through the media on all issues concerning the cholera outbreak and preventive measures, high level engagement of all the six area councils’ chairmen, religious and traditional leaders in the six area councils.
Meanwhile, the statement noted, continuous surveillance on communities with suspected cases are being conducted in all the communities in the six Area councils of the FCT to confirm the prevalence of Cholera.
The media aide explained that as at July, 8, 2021, the FCT recorded 514 suspected cases out of which eight laboratory investigations were confirmed to be Cholera.
The FCT Administration is also working very closely with the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency on all the important interventions to end the scourge of the disease in the Territory, the statement added.
