20th August, 2024
By Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt
Rivers Government on Tuesday confirmed that two cases of Mpox infection have been discovered in the state. The State Commissioner for Health, Dr Mrs Adaeze Oreh, disclosed this to journalists in Port Harcourt.
She, however, assured that the Ministry of Health has put in place machineries to combat Mpox as the State Public Health Emergency Operations Centre is now on high alert to respond to any emergency.
She explained further that “Mpox a viral disease the infected patient can present various symptoms like fever, general weakness and back pain. For for some people who may contract it, their body immune system may clear it. But there are some other people who may end up with severe symptoms, especially those people who are immune compromised”.
“Medical teams have been deployed to respond to all emergencies at the healthcare level, General hospitals and the Specialist hospital. We now have an incident plan for Mpox.
“We are galvanizing resources to find all the incident Mpox. We have Ad-hoc staff who have been engaged and trained to combat this infection. And they have the capacity to respond to this infection at all levels of our healthcare pillars.”
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, in its latest update indicated that there’s a decline in the number of suspected and confirmed Mpox cases in the country over the past four weeks.
