Kano Pilgrims Board to conduct monkeypox test on intending pilgrims

The Kano State Pilgrims Welfare Board has said that intending pilgrims will from Monday undergo Polymerise Chain Reaction (PCR) to ensure none of them had any medical problems.

This was just as the board has said that the Max Air would transport prospective pilgrims to Saudi Arabia for this year’s Hajj.

Disclosing this to pressmen, on Sunday, the board’s Executive Secretary, Alhaji Mohammed Abba-Danbatta, was in Kano at a news conference preparatory to the commencement of the operation.

He said: “We will check intending pilgrims to detect if there is flu or monkeypox, after 72 hours of the test, a pilgrim who had been screened will take off.

“We have 80 hospital staff to conduct the screening at Kano hajj camp,” he said.

Abba-Danbatta further explained that intending pilgrims must undergo medical tests to enable the board to know their health status.

According to him, medical tests way necessary no intending pilgrim will be allowed to travel to the Holy land without knowing his or her health status.

He, however, disclosed that NAHCON had concluded and decided that Max Air would fly intending pilgrims to the holy land.

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