The Government of Rivers State has confirmed two cases of the deadly Mpox infection in the state.
Dr Adaeze Oreh, the Commissioner for Health, confirmed the development at a news conference in Port Harcourt on Tuesday.
Oreh said the state had already put its Public Health Emergency Operations Centre on high alert to respond to further emergencies.
She said: “Recently, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control stated that there are 39 confirmed cases of mpox across the country.
“Out of this number, Rivers State has two confirmed cases of Mpox.
“We have deployed our medical teams to respond to all emergencies at the healthcare level, general and specialist hospitals.”
Oreh said, the state government, had put in place an incident plan for Mpox as well as mobilised resources to find all the incidents of Mpox cases across the state.
The ministry had engaged and trained ad hoc staff to monitor and effectively combat the infection, she said.
“The ad hoc staff now have the capacity to respond to this infection at all levels of our healthcare pillar,” she said.
