Bauchi govt confirms 2 Diphtheria deaths

<p>The agency has confirmed outbreak of yellow fever following the report of 248 suspected cases in Dambam, Ganjuwa and Jama’are LGAs.</p>, <span>Bauchi govt confirms 2 Diphtheria deaths/Illustration. SemanticScholar</span>, <h2>The Bauchi State Primary Healthcare Development Agency (BSPHCDA), has confirmed an outbreak of diphtheria in six local government areas of the state.</h2>, <p>The Executive Chairman of the Agency, Dr Rilwanu Mohammed, confirmed an outbreak of the disease at a news conference on Wednesday in Bauchi.</p>, <p>He said the agency collected 58 samples of suspected cases of the disease from January 2023 to date.</p>, <p>“Two of the three confirmed diphtheria cases died in Jama’are local government area of the state.</p>, <p>“These cases are mostly among normands and children with zero immunisation dose.</p>, <p>“The disease is among children between ages eight months to four years, and there is a case of a seven-year-old child.</p>, <p>“The agency had closed schools in Jama’are because of the reported suspected cases of the disease in a school,” he said.</p>, <p>According to Mohammed, the agency will scale up immunisation of pupils in schools across the affected communities.</p>, <p>Meanwhile, the agency has confirmed outbreak of yellow fever following the report of 248 suspected cases in Dambam, Ganjuwa and Jama’are LGAs.</p>, <p>“We have nine presumptive positive cases of which five had been confirmed,” and decried delays associated with obtaining results of the suspected cases from the laboratory.</p>, <p>“Samples from the states are sent to the National Reference Laboratory in Abuja where they are taken to Dakar in Senegal, that is the problem we are facing”.</p>