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WHO, UNICEF Donate 1,000 Doses Of Drugs For Meningitis For Abuja, After 6 Deaths

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The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World
Health Organisation (WHO) respectively have donated 1,000
doses of drugs for the treatment of Cerebro Spinal
Meningitis (CSM) and three test machines for the Federal
Capital Territory has received.
The Executive Secretary of the Primary Health Care
Development Board, Dr. Rilwanu Mohammed, urged
residents to be calm as the situation was under control
adding that the drugs would be distributed to all general
hospitals in Abuja.
“We will distribute the drugs to all the general hospitals and
teaching hospitals. We are not going to distribute them to
the primary healthcare centres because we assume that
anybody that shows the symptoms of meningitis should be
referred to the general hospitals,” he said.
He also said the three machines used in detecting
meningitis stereotype in order to determine its type have
been given to Maitama General Hospital, Jabi Medical
Referral Centre and University of Abuja Teaching Hospital,
Gwagwalada.
Dr. Mohammed added that there are now 10 suspected
cases with six deaths recorded in Abuja. Four suspected
cases occurred in Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC),
three in Bwari; two in Abaji and one in Kuje Area councils.

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