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.

Kwara     UNIFEMGA     Bola Iyabo Ibiyeye Adisa     Magaji Erubu     Sobi Hill     Magaji Nda     Emir Of Lafiagi     SWAN     Opaleke Bukola Iyabo     Agbarigidoma     Joseph Bamigboye     Yekini Adio     SDP     Elekoyangan     Kwara State Polytechnic     Abraysports FC     Abubakar Aliagan     All Confederation Of Principals Of Secondary Schools     Okanlawon Musa     Shettima     Abdulmutalib Shittu     Abdulmajeed Abdullahi     George Funsho Adebayo     Folorunsho Alao     Elese Of Igbaja     Shaaba Lafiagi     Bature Bello     Amos Justus Sayo     Galland Marcias     Ilorin Emirate Staff Association     Ganiyu Abolarin     Sadiq Buhari     Kwara State Fire Service     Sebastine Obasi     Abdulmumin Yinka Ajia     Ramat Oganija     John Obuh     Waziri Yakubu Gobir     Muritala Olarewaju     Abdulrauf Yusuf     Lithium Deposit     Aso Ofi     Mufti Of Ilorin     Wasiu Onidugbe     Hamza Usman     Musa Aibinu     Muhammad Toyin Sanusi     Abdullateef Abdussalam     Olam Food Ingredients     Eleyele     Sobi FM     KWATMA     Yahya Mohammed     Abdulquowiyu Olododo     Lanwa     Aliyu Adebayo     Mansurat Amuda-Kannike     Hijaab     Olatunji Bamgbola     John Olajide Adedipe     Saheed Alakoso     Ndama Al-hassan     Samuel Adedoyin     Bolakale Saka     Y.A. Abdulkareem     SAPZ Project     Oluwole Dupe     Split Diamond Interchange     Idowu Aremu     Oyelere Oyinloye     Issa Oloruntogun     Alabi Lawal     Benin Republic     Rotimi Oyedepo     Federal Allocation     Ile Arugbo     MINILS    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

CCEPE     Hassan Saliu     Suraj Tunji Oyewale     Olaitan Buraimoh     Sunday Popo-Ola     Abdulquawiy Olododo     Federal Road Maintenance Agency     Baba Issa     Yusuf Babatunde Abdulwahab     Kamaldeen Gambari     ARMTI     Tope Daramola     Mope Dasuki Belgore     Abdul Jimoh Mohammed     Ndakene     Bola Tinubu     Federal Allocation     Elesie Of Esie     Muslim Media Watch Group Of Nigeria     Apaola     AbdulRazaq Jiddah     Ibrahim Mohammed     Afeyin-Olukuta     Ajasse-Ipo     Sa\'adu Gambari     Habeeb Abdullahi Al-Ilory     Fatai Adeniyi Garba     Busari Alabi Alausa     Iyaloja-General     Nigeria Governors\' Forum     Yaru     Isiaka Abdulrazak     Binta Abubakar Mora     Isapa     Sunday Fagbemi     Tinubu Legacy Forum     Lola Ashiru     Maimunat Oloriegbe     Bukola Ajikobi     Amos Justus Sayo     Yahaya A Paniyaro     Umar Yakubu Jaja     Kola Olota     Isiaka Gold     Sulu Babaita Isiaka     Ghali Alaaya     Sherif Shagaya     Simeon Sayomi     Adamu Jemilat-Baki     Kwara Primary Health Care Development Agency     Moshood Kashimawo Abiola     KWATMA     Dairo Kunle Paul     Jimoh Bashir     Mutawali Of Ilorin     Ajayi Okasanmi     Kishira     Royal FM     Joana Nnazua Kolo     Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq     Bello John Olanrewaju     Abdulrazaq Adebayo     Samuel Olusegun Adedayo     Kwara NIPR     Mohammed Jimoh Faworaja     Timothy Akangbe     Labaeka     Abdulfatai Ahmed     Funmilayo Zubair     Apado     Rotimi Oyedepo     Ganmo Electricity Sub-Station     IHS Towers     The Herald     Saeedat Aliyu     Neuropsychiatric Hospital     Buhari