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.

Taiwo Joseph     Jare Olatundun     Muslim Media Watch Group Of Nigeria     Razak Atunwa     NURTW     Vasolar     Nigeria Governors\' Forum     Joana Nnazua Kolo     Iyabo Adewuyi     Ayegbeni     Ilorin.Info     Opolo Global Innovation Limited     Tunde Idiagbon Road     Baba Isale     Gbenga Adebayo     Toun Okewale-Sonaiya     Waheed Ibrahim     Olufolake Abdulrazaq     Salman Alada     Olupako     Kehinde Boyede     Isiaka Danmeromu     N-Power     Sheriff Shagaya     Kunle Okeowo     Moses Salami     Shehu Adaramaja     Shero     Gambari     Toyin Falola     Muhammad Toyin Sanusi     Kwara State Fish Farmers Association     Kwara Politics     Yusuf Amuda Gobir     Imodoye Writer’s Enclave     Bello Bature     Kisira     REO CAKES     Kwara Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board     Earlyon Technologies     Umar Gunu     United Nigeria Congress Party     Lola Ashiru     Ibrahim Agboola Gambari     Baruten     JAAC     Bukola Saraki     Kayode Ishola     Bilikis Oladimeji     20 Billion Bond     Abraham Ojo     Simeon Sule Ajibola     Danladi     Doyin Awoyale     EndSARS     Abdullahi Imam Abdullahi     Alimi     Cornelius Adebayo     Shettima Of Ilorin     Bankole Omishore     Deji Ajani     Rotimi Oyedepo     Oba Abdulraheem     IsDB     Yinka Aluko     Wahab Issa     Kwara State Polytechnic     Malete     Aminat Omodara     Abdulrahman Abdullahi Kayode     Kayode Yusuf     Kwara State Council Of Chiefs     Kwara 2023     Abdulganiyu AbdulAzeez     Ajuloopin     Musa Ayinla Yeketi     Al-Hikmah Radio    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Jalala     Suleiman Abubakar     Ilorin West/Asa Federal Constituency     AbdulRazaq AbduMajeed Alaro     Bello Abubakar     Elewu     Dauda Adeniran Adeshola     FOMWAN     Isiaq Khadeejah     Basic Education Certificate Examination     Age AbdulKareem     Lawal Olohungbebe     Sulyman Atolagbe Alege     Babatunde Idiagbon     Yusuf Amuda Abubakar     Lotus Bank     Abdulazeez Uthman     Senate President     Olateju Lukman     Alfa Modibo Belgore     Face Masks     IYA ALFA NLA     Afeyin-Olukuta     Niguel Gallando Marcias     ITEM 7     Special Agro-industrial Processing Zone     Babata     Azeez Bello     Senior Special Assistant On Student Affairs     Yoonus Kola Olatinwo     LAK Jimoh     Ita-Nmo Market     Voices Of Tomorrow     Aliyu Umar     Zara Umar     Minister     Alloy Chukwuemeka     Aliyu Salihu     Adanla-Irese     Shero     Abubakar Kawu Baraje     Bayo Mohammed Onimode     Asiwaju Bola Tinubu     Baakini     Ijakadi     Goodluck Jonathan     Federal Polytechnic Offa     Kwara Metro Park     Gbadeyan Gbadura Yomi     Dumagi     Abatemi-Usman     Abdulmumini Sanni Jawondo     Maryam Ado Bayero     Samuel Olusegun Adedayo     Air Peace     Government House     Kayode Alabi     Maimunat Oloriegbe     Aliyu Muhammad Saifudeen     Funmilayo Zubair     College Of Arabic And Islamic Legal Studies     Kwara Consultative Forum     KwaraLearn     Bello Oyebanji     Kunle Okeowo     Abdulmalik Bashir Mopelola Risikatullahi     Kwarareports.com     Mohammed Kamaludeen     CACOVID     Ghali Alaaya     Olayinka Olaogun     Association Of Kwara State Online Media Practitioners     Muhammed Mahe Abdulkadir     Rachael Obisesan     Taofeek Sanusi     Sarkin Malamai     Solomon Edojah