Two communities in Anambra state have been left out by a United States based medical team currently in the state on a medical mission.
President of the umbrella body of Anambra state indigenes resident in the United State, ASA-USA, Professor Allison Anadi who is heading the team of medical experts told newsmen yesterday at Enugu-Ukwu Civic centre where the medical team was attending to people with medical cases, that his team would not visit Nkwelle-Ezunaka community in Oyi local government area and Nando in Anambra-East local government because of the rumour that there are cases of Ebola virus.
He, however stated that the most prevalent health challenges among the people of the state from their record since they started the medical mission about 12 years ago included, vision problem, diabetics and hypertension, adding that within the period, the medical team which visits annually had visited about 90 out of the 178 communities in the state and had attended to over 900,000 people.
Reacting on the rumour making the rounds that the corpse of an indigene of the state resident in Liberia who was allegedly killed Ebola virus was recently brought into the state, the ASA-USA leaders, said he could not confirm the rumour to be true.
He said, “To be on a safe side, members of my Exco(executive) have decided to stay away from those geo-graphical areas until the rumour about the spread of Ebola virus is investigated and cleared by the government”.
Commending the effort of both the state and the federal governments in providing medical services to the people, Anadi, however, noted that due to limited resources, including medical facilities, funds and manpower as well as the level of health challenges among the people, his association considered it imperative to assist the government, hence the essence of the introduction of the annual medical services to the people.
He pledged the commitment of his association to carrying out research towards tackling the Ebola virus and to ensure that it does not affect the people Anambra state.
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