Regular hand washing will curb rampant tropical diseases – Health Ministry

Dr Chukwuma Anyaike, Director of the Public Health Department of the ministry, gave this advice at a meeting with health stakeholders from the six Area Councils of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the event was a feedback/ debriefing meeting on Schistosomiasis and Soil Transmitted Helminthiasis (STH) impact assessment survey in the area council.

The debriefing meeting was to ascertain the impact assessment of the 2014 baseline survey conducted across the six Area Councils of the FCT, where some NTDs were discovered to be endemic in the FCT area council.