The Ogun State Government
says there is no case of monkeypox in the state as reported by the National
Centre for Disease Control, Abuja.
The National Centre for
Disease Control, had earlier listed the state among the seven States that the
disease had spread to.
The State's Commissioner
for Health, Dr. Babatunde Ipaye who made this clarification at a press briefing
held at his office, Oke-mosan, Abeokuta, said that there was no case of
monkeypox in any part of the State as what was claimed to be the disease was a
case of skin tissue/rashes after
a diagnosis that was carried out.
He said ‘’when we visited
the supposed monkeypox patient at Ijebu-Ode General Hospital to confirm the
incident. The sample of his skin tissue was diagnosed as skin rashes.’’
He urged members of the
public not to panic but maintain high standard of personal and environmental
hygiene at all times as part of precautionary measures to prevent the disease.
The Commissioner said
three Isolation centres had been placed on alert to curtail any outbreak of
diseases in the state,highlighting the designated centres to include Iberekodo
General Hospital, Federal Medical Centre (FMC),
Idi-Aba, and Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu.
He asked members of the
public to be vigilant and report any suspected case of the disease to the
nearest public health facility or call the following emergency numbers; 08033591033
and 08094663429, admonishing health workers in the state to be proactive and
imbibe universal safety precautions in the management of any suspected or
confirmed cases of the disease.
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