Nigeria: No more river blindness in Kebbi — Health commissioner

Kebbi State Commissioner for Health, ismail Yunusa has expressed that river blindness which was endemic in nine local government areas in the state have been completely eradicated.

Similarly, only two are endemic out of the twenty LGAs which were endemic for Lymphatic Filariasis, one LGA is endemic of out of the fourteen LGAs endemic of Trachoma, adding that this feet were achieved due to sightsaver’s tremendous achievement in fighting the Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) in the…