Kwara denies mystery deaths from alleged disease outbreak

Date: 2017-08-12

The Kwara State government has denied reports of an alleged outbreak of a mystery illness that claimed 70 lives in Oro-Ago community in Ifelodun Local Government Area of the state. The state's Commissioner for Health, Suleiman Alege, told journalists in Ilorin that the reported outbreak was a mere rumour, insisting that the state health ministry had not confirmed any outbreak in any part of the state.

The Oloro of Oro-Ago, Oba Tafa Dada and the president, Oro-Ago Development Union, Olaniyi Olushola, raised an alarm on a strange illness in the community, especially among the Bororos which claimed many lives.

Olushola said many people had died as a result of the illness within two weeks, adding that it had been reported to the state Ministry of Health in Ilorin, through one Dr Lawal. He noted that the Oro-Ago General Hospital had been abandoned and that the community currently has no functional health centre.

The commissioner for health noted that there are epidemiological systems for reporting suspected disease outbreaks in the state and if any occurs, the health response team would be the first to know and is always ready to swing into action.

Alege recalled that when there were reported cases of cholera in some communities in the state, the government immediately deployed emergency kits to the affected areas and also started vaccination in most of the state primary healthcare centers to check an epidemic.

He noted that immediately after the rumour of the strange disease broke last week Thursday, the Ministry of Health deployed a team under the department of public health to the Gaa Okuta community along Oke-ode road axis in Ifelodun Local Government Area and found no evidence of any strange illness or casualties.

He disclosed that members of the community also insisted that there was no disease outbreak in the area.

The Ifelodun council chairman, Alhaji Mukaila Omoniyi Ayinla, said reports of the alleged outbreak In Oro Ago community were false and should be disregarded. He said the council was working on posting a new medical team to the primary health care facility in the area, following the transfer of staff at the facility.

Meanwhile, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control continues to monitor outbreaks across the country. Its latest epidemiology report indicates 393 new cases of Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) but none was confirmed as polio.

Eighty-one suspected cases of cholera were reported from eight local government areas in five states. Only three passed through laboratory confirmation and three people died.

At least suspected cases of meningitis have been reported in 10 states since NCDC declared the outbreak over, but none was confirmed and no death was recorded.

281 suspected cases of measles have been reported from 33 states but none was confirmed and no death was recorded.

The most recent update on Lassa fever is the five cases recorded in Plateau, four of which tested positive. Others have been reported since then in Yobe and Lagos with deaths of patients, prompting placement of hundreds of possible contacts under watch.

A total of 344 cases suspected to be Lassa fever have been reported in the first 29 weeks of this year.

Source

 


Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Olayinka Are     Abdullahi Imam Abdullahi     Raimi Iyanda     Millennium Development Goals     Moses Rahman Popoola     Lucky Omoluwa     Metro Park     Monkey Pox     Kwara     Gbenga Adebayo     Post Utme     Kamaldeen Gambari     Adekunle David Dunmade     Alfa Yahaya Road     Jamila Bio Ibrahim     Saad Belgore     Temitope Ogunbanke     University Road     Durosinlohun Kawu     Kola Bukoye     Muideen Olaniyi Alalade     Standard Organization Of Nigeria     Christopher Tunji Ayeni     Naira Redesign     Ilorin Like-Minds     Ibraheem Abdullateef     Bello Oyebanji     Abdulrahman Abdulrazak     LEAH Charity Foundation     TVC Female National Debate     Salmon Babatunde Salmon     Lukman Oyebanji Fagbemi     Kwara University Of Education     Ilorin Anchor Men And Women     ER-KANG     Sodiya     Universal Basic Education Commission     Abdulmumini AbdulRazaq     New Model Police Station     Ashiru     ITEM 7     Matthew Okedare     Student Learning Support Helpline     Kwha.gov.ng     Facemasks     Share-Tsaragi     Sadiq Umar     Pategi     Dele Belgore     Islamiya Abdulraheem     Bashir Badawi     Mutawalle     COEASU     Alapado     Offa Grammer School     Isiaka Abdulrazak     United Nigeria Congress Party     Razak Atunwa     Abdulwaheed Musa     Kwarareports     Markaz Arabic And Islamic Training Institute, Agege     Abdulfatai Salman Baakini     Baba-Isale     Abdulrazaq Magaji     Abatemi Usman     Yusuf Amuda Aluko     Awili Pedro     Majlis For Sadakah, Zakat And Waqf     Timothy Olatunde Fadipe     Jamiu Oyawoye     Zubair Folorunsho Erubu     Iliasu     Abdulrahman Abdullahi Kayode     Tafida Of Ilorin     JUSUN     Taofik Abdulkareem Babaita     Olomu    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Jamiu Oyawoye     AIT Ilorin     Oke-Ero     Bayer Nigeria Limited     Sidikat Uthman Ajibola     Mohammed Saidu     Habeeb Saidu     Majlis For Sadakah, Zakat And Waqf     Rasheed Jimoh     Waziri Yakubu Gobir     IHS     Yoonus Lawal     Dar-Al-Handasah Consultants     ER-KANG Mining Nigeria Company Limited     Yekeen Alabi     Ope Saraki     Arik     Crystal Corner Shops     Aiyedun     Kwara Polytechnic     Femi Ogunsola     Egbejila     Amada Jidda     College Of Arabic And Islamic Legal Studies     Bio Ibrahim     Olomu     Wale Oladepo     Christopher Tunji Ayeni     Haliru Yahaya     Ndakene     Suleiman Rotimi Iliasu     Oluwarotimi Boluwatife Adenike     Amuda Musbau     Babata     Iyeru Grammar School     Olatomiwa Williams     Lawal Arinola Kudirat     Oloye     Yinka Aluko     Shao     Yeketi     Ibrahim Abdulqadir Abikan     Al-Hikmah University     Bilikis Oladimeji     Peter Obi     Oyedepo     Abdulrahman Iliasu     Saheed Popoola     UNILORIN Alumni Association     Sodiya     SUBEB     Boko Haram     Olabode George Towoju     Mope Dasuki Belgore     Yusuf Ibitokun Sherifat     Yahaya Jibril Usman     Yakubu Mohammed Abdullahi     Salman Jawondo     John Dara     Kwara North     Sebastine Obasi     Quareeb     Haruna Olawale Sulaiman     Shururat Olatinwo     Moji Makanjuola     PharmAccess Foundation     AGF Abdulrazaq     Ladi Hassan     Kayode Ogunlowo     Titus Suberu-Ajibola     Malete     Alaiye     Zainab Abass     Lateef Fagbemi     Aliyu Muhammed     Yashikira     Elekoyangan