Covid-19: Gombe agency appeals to PLWHA to ensure personal hygiene

Covid-19: Agency appeals to PLWHA to ensure personal hygiene

Hygiene

By Hajara Leman

Gombe, April 1, 2020(NAN) Gombe State Agency for the Control of HIV/AIDS (GOMSACA), has appealed to people living positively to ensure personal hygiene and take their drugs regularly because of their compromised immune system.

Dr  Suraj Abdulkarim, Project Manager, GOMSACA, made the appeal in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Gombe on Wednesday.

“People living positively have compromised immune system, hence the need for them to take precaution because of their nature,” he said.

Abdulkarim said the agency, in collaboration with its partners, had mapped out ways of ensuring that People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), got their anti-retroviral drugs, which would last for three months.

He said the aim of the arrangement was to reduce frequent visits to the hospital as well as avoid crowd, adding that those with critical conditions or who required medical advice would be given contact numbers of doctors to attend to them.

He also called on  the state’s task force on Covid-19 to provide personnel protection equipment for PLWHA.

According to him, the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), has also made arrangements incase of stock out of drugs.

He commended preventive measures put in place to curb the spread of the virus in the state by Gov. Inuwa Yahaya.(NAN)
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Edited by Ifeyinwa Omowole/Donald Ugwu