Agency distributes COVID-19 sampling kits to boost community testing

Bauchi State Primary HealthCare Development Agency has distributed samples collection tools to Disease Surveillance Notification reporting Officers (DSNOs) in the 20 local government areas to boost COVID-19 community testing across the state. Presenting the tools to DSNOs Bauchi, the Executive Chairman of the Agency, Dr Rilwanu Mohammed, said the purpose was primarily to decentralise samples […]

Bauchi State Primary HealthCare Development Agency has distributed samples collection tools to Disease Surveillance Notification reporting Officers (DSNOs) in the 20 local government areas to boost COVID-19 community testing across the state.

Presenting the tools to DSNOs Bauchi, the Executive Chairman of the Agency, Dr Rilwanu Mohammed, said the purpose was primarily to decentralise samples collection and reduce the burden of the work at the state level.

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He said this was part of strategies to ensure public health management through increasing the volume of COVID-19 community testing at the LGAs.

Mohammed explained that the state had adopted home management strategy of all asymptomatic patients, except those with clear disease symptoms such as hypertension and diabetes.

“Even though the state was able to flatten the curb, people should not take the fight against coronavirus for granted, because so long as developed countries continue to battle with the second wave of the virus and the travel restrictions, especially in the international flight which has been lifted, no one should start celebrating that we have completely done away with the virus”.

Mohammed told the DSNOs that samples would continue to be collected in all the 20 LGAs.