YENAGOA – Dr Israel Jeremiah, Chairman, Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), Bayelsa Chapter, has said that there was only one reported case of Polio in the state as against the reported 18 cases.
Jeremiah made the assertion in interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Yenagoa on Saturday.
According to Jeremiah, there is only one isolated case reported in February this year and there is no other case reported since then. [eap_ad_1] He explained that the 18 Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) cases reported in Yenagoa Local Government by health officials in the council were not polio cases.
“AFP does not translate to Polio, AFP is Acute Flaccid Paralysis, it is one of the findings that will warrant suspicion and further investigation in Polio studies,” Jeremiah said.
The Disease Surveillance and Notification Unit (DSN) in Yenagoa Local Government in Bayelsa had reported that 18 AFP cases were found in the council’s area within eight months.
The report also said that nine suspected measles cases and three Neonatal Tetanus (NNT) were also reported within the period.
But Dr Ado Mohammed, the Executive Director, National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) had told NAN on Friday that the reported outbreak of Polio in Bayelsa was not true.
However, he confirmed that 18 cases of the AFP were reported in the 15 wards of the Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa. (NAN)
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