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COVID-19: Plateau to carry out medical tests on returning Almajiris

 

Plateau State chairman of committee handling the
return of almajiris to their respective states of origin, Brig. General
Salihu Inusa (rtd), said proper screening and medical test would be
conducted on all returning almajiris to the state before releasing them
to their families.

He noted that the screening will enable the committee
know their status with regard to the current dreaded COVID-19 pandemic
ravaging the world.

Gen. Inusa disclosed this in a telephone interview with
Daily Sun in Jos, saying they had received some almajiris from Gombe
State and they were currently been isolated in the state.

“We are going round the  state to sensitize people on
the need for them to know the good intention of government. We returned
183 to Bauchi State on the day of the flagged off but now we are
profiling them; we need to carry out medical test first.

“Even those that we have received are still at
Government College; we have conducted medical test for them. We cannot
just send them into the community without medical test, that is what we
are doing now.

“Currently, those we have received are from Gombe but
they are from Kanam and Wase local government areas; we have quarantined
them to make sure that they are medically feet before we hand them over
to their local governments and families.”

He explained that the almajiris that they had profiled
ahead of returning them to their respective states of origin will have
to undergo medical test to satisfy their heath conditions.

Gen. Inusa said the committee will mope up all the
almajiris across the 17 local government areas and profile them
according to their states of origin and will be returning them after a
medical test had been conducted on them.

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