Rivers Govt Confirms 2 Cases Of Monkeypox
Rivers State Government said it has detected two cases of the deadly Monkey Pox, also known as Mpox infection in the state.
Rivers State Commissioner for Health, Dr Adaeze Oreh, who confirmed the development at a news conference in Port Harcourt on Tuesday, said the state had already put its Public Health Emergency Operations Centre on high alert to respond to further emergencies.
She said, “Recently, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control stated that there are 39 confirmed cases of Mpox across the country.
“Out of this number, Rivers State has two confirmed cases of Mpox.
“We have deployed our medical teams to respond to all emergencies at the healthcare level, general and specialist hospitals,” she said.
The Commissioner also informed that the state government had put in place an incident plan for Mpox, as well as mobilized resources to find all the incidents of Mpox cases across the state.
She said the ministry had engaged and trained ad hoc staff to monitor and effectively combat the infection.
“The ad hoc staff now have the capacity to respond to this infection at all levels of our healthcare pillar,” she said.
Mpox is an illness caused by the monkeypox virus that is spread between people mainly through close contact.
It can occasionally spread from the environment to people via things and surfaces that have been touched by a person with Mpox.
