FCTA trains hajj officials on international health regulations

AS part of efforts to ensure total compliance with international health travel regulations, the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board (MPWB), in collaboration with the FCTA Department of Public Health, has conducted a one-day training workshop for officials of the MPWB.

The workshop, held Wednesday last week, captured the MPWB officials as part of measures to keep them abreast of International Travel Health Regulations, considering their mandate in coordinating and conducting religious travels to Saudi Arabia.

Declaring the workshop open, the director of the FCTA-MPWB, Malam Muhammad Nasiru Danmallam, charged the participants to take advantage of the forum to get well acquainted with the health requirements for international travels and be ready to comply with such regulations for the benefit of intending pilgrims in the forthcoming hajj exercise.

Danmallam underscored the important role of the board in assisting the FCT hajj contingents to carry out their religious obligation in Saudi Arabia without hitches.

He called on the participants to be good ambassadors of the FCTA in its effort to curtail the spread of COVID-19 and cholera in the territory.

The director said the board had been championing the vaccination of its intending pilgrims to Saudi Arabia each year in accordance with international travel heath regulations.

“Each year, the board, in collaboration with the FCTA Public Health Department, administers vaccinations against yellow fever, polio, cerebrospinal meningitis and others to prepare the intending pilgrims to Saudi Arabia,” he said.

Danmallam said the board would continue to work hard in ensuring that intending pilgrims get enlightened on the preventive non-pharmaceutical measures put in place for the prevention and control of diseases before and during the hajj.

In a remark, the director of FCTA Public Health Department, Dr Sadiq Abdurrahaman, said the administration had mapped out strategies to sensitise its entire workforce and residents of the territory about COVID-19 and cholera and preventive measures against them.

Sadiq emphasised the need for the residents to adhere to counsel by professionals and get vaccinated against all communicable diseases.

He said the Department of Public Health was working hard to ensure that FCT residents were protected against the outbreak of any disease.

Participants at the workshop were exposed to basic fact about international travel health requirements and regulations.

At the event, resource persons from the FCT Public Health Department spoke on the cause, prevention and control of yellow fever and cerebrospinal meningitis (CSM) as well as the COVID-19 and cholera.

Hajj to Saudi Arabia could has been unable to hold for two consecutive years due to the outbreak of COVID-19.

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