The Anambra State Government through the ministry of health has organised a two-day residential training for Disease Surveillance and Notification Officers in a bid to curb a wide spread of diphtheria and other communicable diseases in the State.
The participants were trained on overview of surveillance and its tools, polio situation updates among others.
Declaring the event which was held in Awka opened, the Anambra State Commissioner for Health, Dr Afam Obidike explained that the government embarked on the training as an urgent response to diphtheria outbreaks in various states in Nigeria.
Dr. Obidike revealed that the Surveillance Officers were drawn from the twenty-one local government areas of the State to train them with preventive skill techniques as well as measures of preventing the disease in their various council areas and urged the participants to make adequate use of the training for the good of Ndi-Anambra.
Earlier, the Anambra State Epidemiologists, Dr. Chuma Emembolu appreciated Governor Chukwuma Soludo for his achievements in the health sector, as the training is the first of its kind in the State and the South East region in general.
Diphtheria is a serious bacterial infection caused by the bacteria corynebacterium species that affects the nose, throat and sometimes, the skin of an individual, and its signs and symptoms include fever, runny nose, sore throat, red eye, neck swelling, cough among others.
It can be spread through direct contact with infected people, droplets from an infected person, coughing or sneezing as well as contacts with contaminated clothing and objects.
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