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Meningitis: 2 cases in Yobe, vaccination begins in Katsina

From Hamisu Kabir Matazu (Damaturu) & Habibu Umar Aminu (Katsina) Yobe State has recorded two confirmed cases of Cerebra-spinal Meningitis in Damaturu, the state capital.…

From Hamisu Kabir Matazu (Damaturu) & Habibu Umar Aminu (Katsina)

Yobe State has recorded two confirmed cases of Cerebra-spinal Meningitis in Damaturu, the state capital.

Yobe State Commissioner of Health, Dr. Bello Kawuwa confirmed that the two children admitted at the Specialist Hospital Damaturu are suffering from the disease.

He said the children were under treatment and a medical team had been deployed to institute community intervention in the area.

When Daily Trust visited the hospital, laboratory result of the blood samples taken from the children also confirmed the Cerebra-spinal meningitis clinically.

Meanwhile, immunisation against the disease begings today in Katsina. The state Primary Health Care. Development Agency has confirmed the receipt of 50,000 doses of vaccines out of the 500,000 it requested.

The Executive Chairman of the agency Dr Maawuya Aliu in a chat with Daily Trust said the exercise would commence in the key five primary LGAs that it was first reported, namely Batsari, Jibia, Batagarawa, Faskari and Funtua.

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