Sodiq Ojuroungbe As part of measures to curb the Mpox outbreak, the President of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, Dr Dele Abdullahi, has called for crowd control at the nation’s public hospitals to prevent the further spread of the disease. Abdullahi noted that crowd control at hospitals should be seen as a critical measure in preventing the spread of the disease, maintaining that hospitals were potential hotspots for transmission. Dr Dele Abdullahi Speaking exclusively with PUNCH Healthwise, the NARD president explained that one of the major ways the disease could be transmitted was through crowds within hospitals, stressing that if someone with the disease visits the hospital, others can be at risk.
His call for crowd control at hospitals comes as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention announced that the country had recorded a total of 40 confirmed cases of mpox out of 830 suspected cases in the country. Mpox has continued to spread in Africa and some parts of Europe with cases reported in several countries. Recently, the Africa Centre for Disease Control declared a public health emergency over the growing mpox outbreak on the continent.
The outbreak has swept through several African countries, particularly the Democratic Republic of Congo. The World Health Organisation stressed that the emergence last year and rapid spread of a new virus strain in DRC, clade 1b, which appears to be spreading mainly through sexual networks, and its detection in.