The Commissioner for Communication and Orientation, Chris Nehikhare, who stated this on Wednesday decried the neglect by the Federal Government on the recent outbreak of Lassa Fever prevalent in about three local government areas and has therefore appealed to international donor agencies and groups to come to its aid.
“All plea and entreaties to the Federal Government on this challenging issue, they apparently just fell on deaf ears and this particularly is disheartening especially as the current Minister of Health is from Edo State.
“Having hit a brick wall, we are constrained to reach out to international intervention agencies such as the WHO, UNICEF and any other international organisations that have the mandate to intervene in infectious disease outbreaks.
“As a government, we have written several letters to the Ministry of Health, to the Centre for Disease Control, to all the people involved in health issues to come and intervene and join the state to fight this outbreak but unfortunately they have abandoned us.
“We want the international agencies to intervene quickly before the situation gets worse. We have reached out to some of these agencies and we thank them for the efforts they are providing right now,” he added.
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