The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole has announced the outbreak of yellow fever in five states.
He disclosed this at the end of the weekly meeting of the Federal Executive Council presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The minister also made it known that the Federal Government might stop medical doctors in public sector from engaging in private practice. Also added that 33 suspected cases of monkeypox had so far been recorded in seven states across the country.
The yellow fever outbreak, the minister said, started in Kwara State.
Adewole said so far, 10 cases had been recorded in the country – four in Kwara; two in Kogi; two in Plateau; one in Abia; and one in Edo.
He said the government had therefore decided to start its reactive campaign in Kwara and Kogi states from Friday (tomorrow).
The minister said government had also decided to start a nationwide vaccination against yellow fever, which would be brought forward to December.
Adewole added that no new confirmed case of Lassa fever had been reported in the country, while he also reported the declining case of cholera in Borno State with no death recorded so far.
The minister said the council had also decided to look into the issue of private practice by medical doctors in the public sector and had set up a committee on the matter.
