The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof Muhammad Ali Pate, has called for a multi-sectorial approach to forestall outbreak of infectious diseases like Cholera, Typhoid Fever and Tuberculosis.
“There are many diseases that are socially determined; they are diseases of largely the population that are vulnerable and poor who live in inadequate housing, with low sanitation, who don’t have enough food, who are malnourished or whose occupation exposes them to certain disease conditions,” the minister said on Channels Television’s“So, to address population health, there is the biomedical which are certain diseases that we handle but there are some that go beyond that, and are...
“It’s a whole of government and whole of society efforts that is necessary to improve the health and wellbeing of any population.”The health minister also said the Federal Government has mobilised resources to contain the spread of Cholera in the country.Prof Pate said a technical working group was activated through the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control to support states to reduce the transmission of the infectious disease and treat those who have been infected.
“31 states are affected, 107 local governments are affected,” the health minister said, adding that about 1,500 Cholera cases have been recorded so far in the country.