Health
Niger Quarantines 27 in Isolation Centre.
From Dan Amasingha, Minna
As part of efforts aimed at halting the spread of the dreaded coronavirus through contact tracing, 27 persons have been quarantined by the Niger state government in an isolation centre in Minna.
DAILY ASSET gathered that the 27 person’s were quarantined following the suspicion that they might have contracted Coronavirus through contact with some patients that tested positive in Lagos.
The state commissioner of Health and Hospital services, Dr.
He explained that prior to the discovery of the quarantined suspects, the family members of one of those in isolation who is based in Lagos state, had made a telephone call to members of the family, based in Makera, in Mashegu local govrrnment area of the state on the travel record of the individual.
According to the Health commissioner, when the isolated man boarded his own vehicle and was traveling to Makera after arriving from Lagos state amidst serious coughs many had suspected that he might have had contacts with someone who had tested positive for Covid- 19 in Lagos therefore, he was prevented from travelling to his village for obvious reasons.
Dr. Makun Sidi, further stated that no sooner that the relations of the suspect in Makera community in Mashegu local government area of the state received the information about the poor health condition of the suspected COVID-19 patient that they in turn made a call to the state task force members at the government house Minna.
“We were contacted by the relations with the view to take him to an isolation centre as soon as we lay hands on him through our contact tracing mechanism,” he stated.
The Commissioner of Health and hospital services express gratitude to the people of the state for being at the vanguard in the fight against COVID- 19 stressing that their cooperation had gone a long way in easing the task of the state task force.
Sidi disclosed that when information got to the fleeing suspect that his village people were not ready to receive him he decided to divert his route.
“But the suspect who might have heard about the plans of his family members in Makera to disallow him access to his family house in the village, on his arrival at Makera, on Monday, he parked his private vehicle that he brought from Lagos somewhere within the village, disguised as an ordinary person and boarded a Canter Truck, that was traveling to Wushishi local government area of the state and with 26 people on board the vehicle.
” However, the state government was already ahead of him in their plans to get him arrested and to take him to an isolation centre, along sides the other 26 passengers whose lives he was endangering when he boarded their truck”
“The tracking system of the state government later intercepted them from Mashegu local government area of the state enroute Wushishi to the facility at the Social rehabilitation centre, Shanu village in Bosso local government area of the state, from where they were being quarantined since on Monday”.
He said, “basically, we have these 27 persons here that might have had contacts with the man who returned from Lagos and has been exhibiting some common symptoms of the virus, but envaded arrest”
The state taskforce member revelled that it has not been confirmed that they were positive of the pandemic but all the task force was doing is proactive measures to forestall the spread of the virus in the state.
“The issue is that he were coming from the epic centre and because of the directive of the World Health Organization ( WHO) and Nigeria centre for Disease Control ( NCDC) to quarantine such people that is why we are doing what we are doing “
They are being quarantined in order for them to obey the quarantine rules, in this isolated place at the Social Rehabilitation Centre, Minna for a minimum of 14 days and pending the outcome of the tests we conducted on them that has been taken for analysis at NCDC, in Abuja.
He however disclosed that the results of the tests conducted on the 27 persons with suspected corona virus symptoms were being expected in the state by next week, adding that the moment the Niger State Ministry of Health and Hospital Services get the results, will determine how long the people will stay at the Isolation centre.
Hundreds of millions of children and adolescents around the world face daily violence in their homes, schools, and elsewhere which could have lifelong consequences.The World Health Organisation (WHO) said this on Thursday.The violence includes being hit by family members, being bullied at school, as well as physical, emotional, and sexual violence, WHO said.
In most cases, violence occurs behind closed doors. More than half of those aged two to 17 or more than a billion minors in total experience violence each year according to the WHO. In three out of five children and adolescents, it is physical violence at home, with one in five girls and one in seven boys experiencing sexual violence.Between a quarter and half of minors are affected by bullying according to the information provided.Only half of the children reportedly talk about their experiences of violence and less than 10 per cent receive help.Lifelong consequences could include depression and anxiety disorders, or tobacco and drug use.As a result, many children do not reach their learning potential in school.Against the backdrop of being highly preventable, violence remains a horrific day-to-day reality for millions of children around the world leaving scars that span generations,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director general.The UN’s first conference on violence against children opened in Bogota, Columbia on Thursday.At the two-day conference, more than 100 countries pledged to find ways to better support overwhelmed parents and introduce school programmes against bullying and for healthy social behaviour.They also pledged to raise the minimum age for marriage.Some countries wish to generally ban children from being hit at school or home. (dpa/NAN)
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has listed 17 bacteria, viruses and parasites that regularly cause disease as top priorities for new vaccine development.WHO, in a study published on Tuesday, reconfirmed long-standing priorities for vaccine research and development (R&D), including for HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis – three diseases that collectively take nearly 2.
5 million lives yearly. The study is the first global effort to systematically prioritise endemic pathogens based on their regional and global health impact. Attention is also given to pathogens such as Group A streptococcus, which causes severe infections and contributes to 280,000 deaths from rheumatic heart disease, mainly in lower-income countries.Another new priority is Klebsiella pneumoniae — a bacteria that was associated with 790,000 deaths in 2019 and is responsible for 40 per cent of neonatal deaths due to blood infection (sepsis) in low-income countries.The new study supports the goal of ensuring that everyone, everywhere, can benefit from vaccines that protect against serious diseases.It aims to shift the focus in vaccine development away from commercial returns towards regional and global health needs, WHO’s Dr Mateusz Hasso-Agopsowicz, who works in vaccine research, said in a statement.He explained that in the past, vaccine R&D typically was influenced by profitability.“As a result, diseases that severely affect low-income regions received little attention.“We hope this represents a critical shift where we want to change the focus from commercial perspective profitability of new vaccines towards the actual health burden so that the new vaccine research and development is driven by health burden and not just commercial opportunities,” he said.To carry out the study, WHO asked international and regional experts what they think is important when prioritising pathogens for vaccines R&D.Criteria included deaths, disease and socioeconomic impact, or antimicrobial resistance.“We had asked experts that have expertise in pathogen epidemiology, clinicians, paediatricians, vaccine experts from all of the WHO regions, to ensure that the list and the results that we produce really reflect the needs of diverse populations worldwide,” Hasso-Agopsowicz said.Analysis of those preferences, combined with regional data for each pathogen, resulted in the top 10 priority pathogens for each of WHO’s six regions globally.The regional lists were then consolidated to form the global list, resulting in the 17 priority endemic pathogens for which new vaccines are urgently needed.To advance vaccine R&D, WHO has categorised each pathogen based on the stage of vaccine development and the technical challenges involved in creating effective vaccines.Hasso-Agopsowicz said the study is expected to guide future vaccine R&D investments, including funders, researchers and vaccine developers, and also policymakers as they “can decide whether to introduce these vaccines into immunisation programmes.” (NAN)
The Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU), University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan,has suspended the strike it embarked on Oct. 25.The workers resumed work on Friday morning.The seven-day nationwide warning industrial action embarked upon by the unions was to press home their demands ofadjustment of Consolidated Health Salary Structure as was done with the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure sinceJan.
2, 2014 and implementation of consultant cadre for pharmacists in federal health institutions. Others are upward review in the retirement age from 60 to 65 years for health workers and 70 years for consultants, andpayment of outstanding salaries of JOHESU members in professional regulatory councils.The UCH JOHESU Chairman, Mr Oladayo Olabampe, said that the strike was suspended as directed by the national body.He explained that “the suspension followed an MoU signed between JOHESU national leadership and Federal Government.“The Federal Government asked for a maximum of six weeks counting from Oct. 31, to meet our demands.“Based on the MoU signed, the JOHESU National Executive Council met and resolved that the strike be suspended on Fridaynationwide.”According to him, JOHESU UCH is obeying the order, and workers have resumed work.Olabampe said that if the demands were not met after the six weeks, they would embark on an indefinite strike. (NAN)
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