The Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of National Primary Healthcare Development Agency , Dr. Faisal Shuaib, has disclosed that Kaduna State recorded 156 cases of dipheteria outbreak and 20 deaths.“Since March 2023 when the outbreak were first detected here in Kaduna, they have seen 156 cases and about 20 deaths so far, which is high for dipheteria.
“We are seeing this outbreak because of low population immunity, that has been brought on by low vaccination coverage and when you look at the discrepancies in terms of current outbreak even within Kaduna you will find out that those LGAs that have higher coverages tend to have lower cases of the disease.“This again points to the fact that vaccines are the most powerful tool that can be used against this vaccine preventable diseases.
“We also recognise that there are communities that we have to improve on our case finding, when you look at the data from the couple of weeks, we see there is a downward trend but again I want to emphasise that we are not out of the wood yet.
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