Red Alert Warning From FCTA For Communicable Diseases

In response to reports of an Ebola and other dangerous illness epidemic, the Federal Capital Territory Administration expanded its disease monitoring system.

The Epidemiological Division of the Public Health Department’s workers have reportedly been put on red alert at the request of the FCT Health and Human Services Secretariat, according to Dr. Sadiq Abdulrahaman, the department’s director.

While no significant illness outbreaks have been reported in the year coming to a close, according to Sadiq, the FCT remains in a high alert condition.

The FCTA has also acquired supplies to prevent the spread of infectious illnesses, especially in the regions of the territory that would be most negatively impacted by the epidemic, such as AMAC, Kuje, and Bwari.

“For Ebola virus illness, which is a major worldwide public health problem and has only been seen in Nigeria in the last case from 2014, we are aware that there is already an epidemic there, with significant implications including quite a few fatalities and the closing of schools. So, even though we haven’t yet seen a case, we have implemented a high alert setting here (in the FCT). Therefore, preventative action has been taken.

“Our monitoring system has been strengthened, and the FCT Administration has purchased quite a few goods, especially for these important illnesses like cholera that we saw in 2021. We made advocacy trips to important parties, particularly in the Area Councils where the illness had a high potency during the epidemic, such AMAC, Kuje, and Bwari.