Amala
According to Daily Trust, the Kwara State Government has dismissed
claims making wave across the state suggesting that a local delicacy of
yam flour, popularly refer
red to as ‘Amala’, cures the COVID-19
infection.
The Permanent Secretary, Kwara state Ministry of Health, Dr Abubakar
Ayinla, stated this on Tuesday in Ilorin during the daily routine
meetings of the medical team of the Kwara COVID-19 Technical Committee
in the state.
Dr Ayinla stated that the state government has set up the Risk
Communication Teams, among others, to manage rumours and fake news
circulating with regards to COVID-19 in the state.
He explained that the teams were set up to allay fears of misconception,
while reiterating that COVID-19 has no cure for now and that Amala
cannot cure it.
He also noted that the confirmed patients with COVID-19 infection at the
Sobi Isolation Centre were faring well, adding that the state
government is caring for their needs.
Also speaking, Dr Michael Oguntoye, the Director, Primary Health Care at
the Ministry of Health, explained that the state presently has three
COVID-19 isolation centres across the state.
According to him, the Sobi Isolation Centre currently has 300 bed
space for different levels of care as well as the intensive care unit
together with high risk unit.
He noted that the whole of the Sobi hospital has been converted to an Isolation centre.
The other Isolation centres, he said, included the Hajj Transit Camp
which has been turned to an Isolation centre and establishment of
another Isolation camp at Offa.
Oguntoye also said the state had acquired additional two ventilators to cater for any eventuality.
Daily Trust reports that the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC)
on Tuesday said Kwara state had four confirmed coronavirus cases.