The Federal Government on Tuesday gave a hard knock on states for the outbreak of Lassa fever in the country.
The government which blamed the spread of the disease on “the conspiracy of silence” among states of the federation, also expressed fears that a yet-to-be-identified disease might have surfaced in the country.
The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, made these observations in Abuja during the emergency council meeting on Lassa fever outbreak in the country,
According to him, many states in the country had “refused to speak on the Lassa fever disease because it had not been reported in their states.”
He stressed that a few states only responded to the disease after it had been reported in their states.
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