The Enugu State Government has stepped up surveillance in curbing the spread of monkeypox in the 14 local government areas of the state.
This was disclosed by Dr George Ugwu, the Executive Secretary of the Primary Health Care Development Agency (ENS-PHCDA) in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Enugu.
According to him, the disease surveillance officers in council areas had been sensitised and placed on alert to detect monkeypox.
”Enugu is bordered by three states in the South-East region and two states in the North Central region.
”We have retrained our local disease surveillance officers on symptoms and signs to watch out for emerging and re-emerging diseases.
”Monkeypox has not been detected in Enugu State but we are not resting on our onus since we are a multi-bordered state.
“We have stepped up all perimeter of local disease surveillance against monkeypox, and other emerging and re-emerging diseases in order to safeguard the health of all in the state.
“However, we want our residents as well as individuals and families living in the state to up their personal and environmental hygiene and cleanliness levels.
“The issues of taking good care of one’s hygiene and observing those protocols of personnel and family hygiene as during the heat of COVID-19 especially that of regular hand washing and sanitising.
“Our people should also be careful on how they handle or touch home pets and animals since the disease is first transmitted from animal to human as well as infected human to another normal human.”
Ugwu noted that the agency, its affiliates and partners have also sharpened their response time to any suspected case of emerging and re-emerging diseases.
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