No COVID-19 case in Kwara Leprosy settlement - Programme Manager

Date: 2020-07-28

Dr Rasheed Muhammed, the Programme Manager, Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control Programme in Kwara, on Monday says there is no COVID-19 case at the Leprosy Settlement in Omu-Aran, Irepodun Local Government Area.

In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ilorin, Muhammed disclosed that though the settlement had no records of the pandemic, the inmates were however feeling the impact of Coronavirus.

The expert on Tuberculosis and Leprosy control lamented that the people in the settlement have no means of income and what to feed their family members with.

He observed that before the COVID-19 pandemic, the inmates resorted to begging to survive but now that the pandemic was in the state, they could hardly see people around to beg.

"This is due to the lockdown and social distancing advised by the state government to curb the spread of the pandemic.

"COVID-19 has had great effect on the inmates, even though there are no cases, it has been difficult.

"Though some organisations have been to the settlement to distribute some food items," he said. According to him, the Damien Foundation in Nigeria, who specialised in caring for people with tuberculosis and Leprosy, has been coming to the assistance of the settlement.

Commending the state government for assisting the people, he however, observed that government alone cannot do everything.

Muhammed appealed to organisations and well meaning individuals in the society to come to the assistance of the settlement, adding that they were humans just like anybody.

He warned against stigmatising people living in the settlement, adding that the people do not have the disease anymore.

He explained that the disease had been cured already and what people see was only the effects that tend to deform them, adding that they cannot infect anybody.

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Ajidagba     Offa     Boko Haram     Akande Idowu Ayoola Muhammed     Onilorin Of Ilorin     Kola Adesina     Bayer Nigeria Limited     Elekoyangan     Yoruba     Yusuf Amuda Aluko     Sheriff Olanrewaju     Split Diamond Interchange     Maryam A. Garuba     Alao Ayotunde     Prince Mahe Abdulkadir     CKNG     Balogun Fulani     Nurudeen Mohammed     Sulaiman Gado     Suraj Tunji Oyewale     Mukhtar Shagaya     Taiwo Joseph     Okin Biscuit     Shehu Alimi Foundation For Peace And Development     Chief Imam Of Ilorin     QuickWin     Kamaldeen Gambari     Suleiman Ajadi     Segun Ogunsola     Yakub Ali-Agan     Ayobola Ipinlaiye     Tafidan Kaiama     Undergraduate Bursary     Saadu Gbogbo Iwe     Lawan     Kola Olota     Peculiar Allowance     Read With Me     Muhammad Mustapha Suleiman     Olatunji Abdulmumeen     Mohammed Yisa     Alapansapa     Abubakar Baba     Christopher Odetunde     Amule     Abiodun Jacob Ajiboye     Azeez Salawu     Aliyu Umar     KWIRS     Kola Ologbondiyan     Kale Ayo     Edu     Dan-Kazeem     Oasis Muslim Care Foundation     Albert Ogunsola     Hauwa Nuru     Centre For Community Empowerment And Poverty Eradication     Laboratory-to-Product     Abdulbaqi Jimoh     Ebola     Bolaji Abdullahi     Alabe     Galadiman Ngeri     John Olobayo     Kamoru Kadiri     Aliyu Muhammad Saifudeen     Share/Tsaragi     Majlis For Sadakah, Zakat And Waqf     Taibat Ayinke Ahmed     Toyin Saraki     Amos Bajeh     GAMA     Mohammed Jimoh Faworaja     Hikmah AbdulKareem     Gamji Members Association     Iliasu     Osi    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Dogara     Awili Pedro     Henry Makinwa     James Kolo     Irepodun     Ayodele Shittu     Senate     Muslim Stakeholders Of Kwara State     Wahab Olasupo Egbewole     Gbemi Saraki     Abdul-Rasheed Na\'Allah     Iponrin     Bature Bello     International Vocational Centre     AbdulRasaq Abdulmajeed Alaro     Adanla-Irese     Ahmed \'Lateef     Hamza Usman     Kwara State Health Insurance Agency     Donatus Ejidike     Okasanmi Ajayi     Yekeen Alabi     Taibat Ayinke Ahmed     Pilgrims Board     NNPP     Muideen Olaniyi Alalade     Omotoso     John Dara     Abdullah Janet Amudat     Akeem Olatunji     Sayomi     Okanlawon Musa     Aliyu Muhammad Saifudeen     Saadu Alanamu     Babaita     Sanusi Abubakar     Iyabo Dupe Adekeye     Ilorin Central Mosque     Quareeb     Emir Of Shonga     Danladi     Haliru Dantoro     Ope Saraki     Shehu Salau     Chief Imam Of Lafiagi     PAACO-PCL Consortium     Dan Masanin     Sheikh Ridhwanullah El-ilory     Soffiyyallah Kamaldeen     Ariyo     Olofa Of Offa     Chemiroy Nigeria Limited     Kayode Alabi     Abdulrasheed Lafia     Ishola Moses Abiodun     Olokoba Sulyman     Dorcas Afeniforo     Simon Sayomi     Razak Atunwa     New Naira Notes     Aliyu U. Tilde     Teachers Specific Allowance     SGBN     Olaitan Adefila     Yashikira     COVID     CT Ayeni     Seni Saraki     Onilu     Olatunde Olukoya     Communication Network Support Services     Nagode     Kayode Ibrahim     Towoju     Shururat Olatinwo     Taofik Abdulkareem Babaita     Adamu Attah