NATIONAL chairman of the Control Research Forum in Benue State, Dr Igagbul Agela yesterday said that 1,218 children were detected with tuberculosis in Benue State.
Dr Agela disclosed this during his presentation in Makurdi at an event marking the end of five years of Sustainable Mechanism for Improving Livelihood and Household Empowerment SMILE in the state.
The chairman said that the figure covered between 2015 and 2018 stressing that it affected children below 15 years of age.
Dr Agela explained that 49 children were diagnosed of the disease in 2015, 166 children discovered in 2016 with a large number of 581 children detected in 2017 as well as a total of 422 infected in January this year alone.
According to him, “Tuberculosis (TB) is common in Nigeria not just in Benue state. Nationally, we had expected 56,000 children with TB across the country but we got 5000 of them.
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