
MAKURDI—Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state, his Health Commissioner, Dr. Cecilia Ojabo and the Chief Medical Director, CMD, of the Benue State University Teaching Hospital, BSUTH, Prof. Orkugah Malu, yesterday disagreed over the purported outbreak of Lassa fever in the state.
Speaking to reporters yesterday in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, the Commissioner for Health stated that the state at the moment was free of the viral disease.