MINISTER SETS UP TASK FORCE ON DIPTHERIA

15/09/23

PRESS RELEASE

DANIELS OG

Diptheria disease has claimed many lives in recent times and to address the situation, the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Ali Pate has set up a Task force to address outbreak .

In a statement signed by Special Assistant to the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Media and External Relations Tashikalmah Hallah stated that the Task Force will operate in an emergency mode in order to forestall further spread to other States and bring succour to the populace.

The Taskforce is to be co-chaired by the Executive Director of National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Faisal Shuaib and the Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control,NCDC, Ifedayo Adetifa

Other members of the Taskforce include Director of Public Health in the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Anyaike Chukwuma, representatives from World Health Organisation,United Nations Children’s Fund,UNICEF, Federal Ministry of Information and the Northern Traditional Leaders Committee on Primary Healthcare Delivery.

The 14 infected states are, Lagos, Osun, Federal Captial Territory, Nassarawa, Kaduna, Katsina, Yobe, Bauchi, Gombe, Borno, Zamfara, Jigawa, Kano and Plateau.

The Coordinating Minister also stated that the taskforce team should liaise with the Governors of the 14 infected States for counterpart funding, ownership and mass mobilisation .