Federal Government has recommended tuberculosis, TB, screening as a pre-medical test for newly employed public servants in federal and state governments as well as newly admitted students into secondary and tertiary institutions.
Disclosing this development during the 61st National Council on Health, NCH, meeting in Kano, Minister of Health, Professor Issac Adewole, said TB screening should be provided to persons seeking health care whether or not they had symptoms and signs compatible with TB infection.
Those affected by the directive include newly employed staff in all Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs, and newly admitted students into secondary and tertiary institutions.
Prof. Adewole further directed that all health care workers should, as a routine, conduct symptomatic TB screening at all Out Patient Departments, OPDs, in all health facilities, especially at secondary and tertiary health facilities, to ensure prompt diagnosis of TB and eventual treatment of the positive TB cases.
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