The National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Kwara State on Friday started its 2020 batch A orientation course lecture series with the sensitization of corps members on coronavirus.
While declaring the lecture open, the State Coordinator NYSC Kwara, Mrs Francisca Olaleye, stated that the sensitisation was part of the efforts put in place by the scheme to avert the deadly disease in the orientation camp.
Olaleye stated that the scheme had prioritised the safety of all corps members for safe and healthy living in the service year.
She reiterated that hand sanitizers had been put in all strategic places on camp and therefore enjoined corps members and all other members of the camp community to make use of it every time.
The state coordinator who cautioned all members of the camp community to be conscious of unnecessary panic , however, advised them to make sure to immediately report to the camp management any noticeable form of discomfort among persons around them.
Meanwhile, the guest lecturer for the sensitization on coronavirus, who also doubles as medical consultant at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Dr. Olaitan Dele, allayed the fears of corps members on the issue of virus.
Dele listed the symptoms of the disease to be fever, abdominal pains, cough amongst others.
He therefore advised them to approach camp clinic anytime they noticed any of such symptoms.
He also stated some preventive measures for the virus.
The doctors said corps members should endeavour to be washing their hands frequently with the strategically placed sanitizer on camp.
He further advised them to avoid unnecessary handshake and try as much as possible to cover both their mouths and noses while coughing.
He enlightened that the virus could only survive for ten minutes outside the host and therefore affirmed that using alcoholic sterilizer to rub hands immediately after handshake was also a proper way to avert contacting the virus.
