A Chevron Company, Star Deepwater Petroleum Limited and its Co-Venturers in the Agbami oil field project have announced plans to kick off a tuberculosis (TB) campaign to raise awareness of the deadline disease in Kano, Lagos, Kaduna and River States.This was announced by the company Director, Jeffery Ewing on World Tuberculosis Day Celebration in Abuja last week. Ewing also used the occasion to disclose that Chevron companies in Nigeria as well as the Agbami partners have been building ultra-modern chest clinics fitted with x-ray machines, to eradicate the spread of tuberculosis and other related diseases in Nigeria.
According to Ewing, who was represented by Umaru Ribadu, Manager, Government Affairs, Chevron, 25 GeneXpert machines have been deployed nationwide to fast-track testing rates across the country.
Source: Healthnews Nigeria
