Yuletide: FCTA heightens surveillance on deadly diseases

In order to swiftly mitigate the myriad of consequences of deadly diseases outbreak, the FCT Administration has heightened its disease surveillance system against key diseases like cholera, Ebola, Monkeypox, meningitis, measles and COVID-19. The Administration said the Epidemiological Division of its Public Health Department, under the FCT Health and Human Services Secretariat (HHSS) have been […]

Yuletide: FCTA heightens surveillance on deadly diseases

In order to swiftly mitigate the myriad of consequences of deadly diseases outbreak, the FCT Administration has heightened its disease surveillance system against key diseases like cholera, Ebola, Monkeypox, meningitis, measles and COVID-19.

The Administration said the Epidemiological Division of its Public Health Department, under the FCT Health and Human Services Secretariat (HHSS) have been put in alert mode on all the diseases posing mortal dangers to humans. 

The Director, FCT Public Health Department, Dr Sadiq Abdulrahaman, while briefing the media on the state of preparedness and response of the FCTA health sector, in Abuja, said the FCT was on a high alert mode, as part of proactive measures taken, even though it has not witnessed any serious outbreak of the diseases within the year ending,