The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has put healthcare centres on high alert over the cholera outbreak across the country.
The FCT Minister of State, Dr Mariya Mahmoud, on Tuesday, urged Area Council Chairmen and the FCT Primary Health Care Board to put in place precautionary measures to guard against the epidemic.
The Minister made this call while taking briefs from the Director of the FCT Primary Health Care Board at the 190th FCT Joint Account Allocation Committee (JAAC) held in her office.
She said, “I am indeed delighted that no case of the cholera epidemic has been reported in any of our primary healthcare centres across the six area councils in the FCT.
“However, that does not give us room to relax because this is the seat of government. The FCT Primary Health Care Board should put in place measures to guard against any outbreak of the disease.
“By now, I was expecting the board to commence radio jingles in different major languages and sensitization programmes in our schools, markets, mosques and churches. We should not give room for the outbreak before we start the fire brigade approach. That will not be acceptable,” she warned.
Meanwhile, the sum of N3,624,968091,.61 billion was disbursed to the six Area Councils and other stakeholders as statutory allocation for the month of May 2024.
According to her, the breakdown of the figures released during the JAAC meeting indicates that the sum of N1,138,534,925.64billion was made available for distribution to the six area councils, while the sum of N2,486,433,165.97billion was made available to other stakeholders, bringing the total sum to N3,624,968,091.61billion.
Similarly, distributions to the six area councils show that the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), received N346,534,958.69million, while Gwagwalada got N160,805,125.65million and Kuje received N191,381,478.23million.
Other area councils include, Bwari Area Council which received N152,802,656.03million, Abaji got N119,495,116.96million while Kwali received N167,515,590.08million, bringing the total sum to N1,138,534,925.64billion disbursed to the six area councils.
On the other hand, distribution to other critical stakeholders includes: Primary School Teachers which gulped N2,115,855,089.92billion, 15 percent of Pension Funds took N226,478,989.57million, One per cent of Training Fund gulped N36,249,680.85million, while 10 percent of Employer Pension Contribution gulped N107,849,405.63million, bringing the total sum to N2,486,433,165.97billion.