Sadiq, who stated this in an interview with the News Agency
of Nigeria (NAN) in Kaduna, said several strategies had been employed, in line
with the Federal Ministry of Health guidelines, to improve the Tuberculosis
indices in the state.
He identified the strategies to include active case finding
through targeted outreaches, House-to-house
case search, contact tracing,
public-private mix intervention and other active TB case finding
activities.
The manager revealed that the state had acquired 13 gene
Xpert machines for use in nine local government areas, and that the machines
had cumulatively tested over 38,256 suspected tuberculosis cases.
With the provision of 184AFB microscopy sites across the 23
LGAs, the number of facilities providing TB services in the state had been
scaled up from 43 per cent to 62 per cent, he said.
“Tuberculosis services have been expanded to 50 additional
health facilities across the state. This will continue until every facility is
providing Tuberculosis services in the state,” Sadiq added.
The manager stated that the Tuberculosis treatment rate for
the state was excellent, with about 94 per cent of the cases diagnosed managed
successfully.
Meanwhile, the Tuberculosis programme has procured three
level 2 biosafety cabinet, installed and certified at some General hospitals,
in addition to 35 Olympus microscopes that were also procured and distributed.
Sadiq called on residents to avail themselves of the
opportunity and get tested, when coughing for two weeks or more.
“If you are coughing for two weeks or more, I appeal to you
to go for tuberculosis test and if confirmed positive, you should be rest
assured that the disease is curable and treatment is free of charge”, he
counselled.
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