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Kaduna govt moves to stem stigmatisation against COVID-19 patients

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The Kaduna State government has initiated moves to ensure that there is no discrimination and stigmatization of discharged COVID-19 patients in the state.

Dr Amina Mohammed Baloni, the state Commissioner for Health, while addressing newsmen in Kaduna on Thursday said that the state government has set up a mechanism that will stem stigmatisation of such patients who have been discharged of COVID-19.

According to Balori, a monitoring and evaluation template had been developed to enable real time electronic capture activities and progress in the various implementation processes in the response to COVID-19.

“The State government was working with 950 community mobilizers to see that stigma and discrimination of those that have been treated and discharged of COVID-19 stopped happening,” she said.

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This comes after the Federal Government of Nigeria said it had concluded plans to disburse the sum of N446.5 million to 22,380 less-privileged households in Kaduna State, under its Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT), a Households Uplifting Programme.

This was stated on Thursday by the Head of the Cash Transfer Unit in Kaduna State, Hajiya Hauwa Abdulrazaq during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

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