Nigeria: Katsina Could Stop Spread of Outbreaks With Isolation Centres

[Nigeria Health Watch] A one-year-old child with suspected measles is lying in one of the small rooms outside the emergency paediatric unit of the General Hospital, close to the Emir's palace in Katsina city. He was brought in two days ago and is surrounded by his mother and two other relatives. The boy is just one of the many children that have presented with the same condition in the last year, according to the nurse on duty. The acting state coordinator of the World Health Organisation in Katsina, Dr. Emanuel Okpe, who suppor
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - Category: African Health Source Type: news