Edo hospital offers free screening on hepatitis B to residents

<h2></h2>, <h2>The Edo Specialist Hospital on Monday, August 7, 2023 began a four-day free screening and vaccination on hepatitis B to residents of the state.</h2>, <p>Too commemorate 2023 World Hepatitis Week, screening and vaccination will be conducted and for those tested positive, would undergo a follow up test to know the viral load and the extent of the liver damage.</p>, <span>Edo hospital offers free screening on hepatitis B to residents</span>, <p>The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the exercise is being observed to commemorate the 2023 World Hepatitis Week. Dr Esene Samuel, the team lead, told NAN on the sideline that the week was being observed to raise awareness about the deadly liver disease.</p>, <p>“We are doing Hepatitis Week and offering free hepatitis B screening for people; the purpose of which is to guide against hepatitis B, an infection of the liver.</p>, <p>“It is one of the deadly infections; yet earlier detection, full screening and medication, proper evaluation saves a lot of things.</p>, <p>“So for the purpose of this programme, we are doing the screening; we test for hepatitis B and for those that come negative, we do vaccination.</p>, <p>“This facilitation is in three folds. You take one today, one month later; you come over to the clinic to take the second. Then, six months later you take the complete dose.</p>, <p>“If per adventure you miss any of these ones; perhaps you take the first dose and miss the next and last, that means you have to start everything all over,” he said.</p>, <p>Samuel explained, however, that those tested positive would undergo a follow up test to know the viral load and the extent of the liver damage. According to him, “For those that are already positive, we also do follow up for them.</p>, <p>“There are other tests they need to do like the fine panel test, another test to know the extent of the damage it has caused.</p>, <p>“Then we educate them more of lifestyle and the other changes they will have to do for better health.</p>, <p>“It is for fou