Mr Umezuruike said since the onset of the disease, Ebonyi had recorded a total of 32 suspected cases with only one confirmed.
“It will inform public health decision-making and facilitate the development of diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines,” said the NCDC director-general.
The lack of menstrual pad banks sometimes forces female students to be absent from school while they are menstruating.
Found predominantly in west Africa, Lassa fever has the potential to cause tens of thousands of deaths.
Disclosing that the abuse of paracetamol affects the liver, the commissioner urged Nigerians to keep strictly to prescriptions.
The group said that Africa suffers an annual loss of illicit financial flow of over $80 billion.
Mr Madi said the decision to recruit the health workers was informed by the shortage of skilled workers in the primary healthcare facilities in the state.
Britain’s Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has called for a U-turn on the mandatory COVID-19 vaccines for health workers.
While he met with members of the Nigeria Medical Association on, President Muhammadu Buhari asked striking doctors to return to work to save lives.
The child protection specialist said health workers are forbidden from performing genital mutilation on a female child.
