No Outbreak Of Meningitis in Delta State says Health Commissioner

    The Delta State Commissioner of Health, Dr. Nicholas Azinge, has urged citizens of the state not to panic over the reported case of meningitis in the state.

    Azinge, who made the appeal when he spoke with newsmen in Lagos yesterday, said that one case of meningitis could not be taken for an outbreak, adding that the state is safe.
   Rize FM recalls that doctors in Central Hospital, Warri, Delta State, yesterday confirmed a case similar to symptoms of the dreaded disease, Cerebrospinal Meningitis.
   He said the reported case of meningitis in Delta State was only one officially reported case, which could not be regarded to as an outbreak.
the case is the first to be recorded in the state since the outbreak of the pandemic some weeks ago in the country.
   The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, said that the Federal Government had earmarked over 1 billion dollars to procure vaccines to combat meningitis in the five most affected states in the northern region.
     He advised states to join hands with the Federal Government in combating the deadly epidemic by investing more in the health sector.