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Cholera Outbreak Hits FG College In Ekiti, 300 Students Affected by Nobody: 11:25am On Oct 23, 2015 |
About 300 students of the Federal Government
Girls’ College, Efon-Alaaye, Ekiti State have been
hospitalized over a suspected outbreak of cholera
epidemic in the school.
The development has created serious panic
across the state, as parents whose wards/children
are in the school now rush to the school to
identify the victims.
Information gathered confirmed that the signs
had started manifesting since October 10, when
some students were vomiting and stooling
uncontrollably, resulting to serious fear among
the staff and students.
When the situation became uncontrollable, the
principal of the college, Mrs Grace Ogunyomi, was
said to have reported the case to the state
government on Wednesday for prompt action.
The revelation showed that the students were not
infected at the same time, but were being taken
to the hospital in batches for prompt medical
attention to avoid the spread of the disease.
Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayo Fayose, had ordered
the Commissioner for Health, Dr Olurotimi Ojo to
deploy professionals and drugs to help in
stemming the tide of the epidemic.
The commissioner had also allayed the fear being
exhibited by parents, saying it was a
gastrointestinal infection popularly called
diarrhoea.
It was reliably confirmed that about 31 of them
were still being hospitalized at the Efon General
Hospital, while many had been treated and
released, having responded to treatment in time.
It was gathered that what the teachers had
earlier suspected was that their food and water
must have been contaminated, leading to
outbreak of the epidemic in the school.
But a teacher, who spoke with newsmen under
anonymity confirmed that medical examination of
the samples of their water and food later
confirmed that the infection did not emanate
from those sources.
“What we felt was that, we thought their food
and water had been infected, but we later
gathered that it was not from that source.
When contacted on the matter, the Permanent
Secretary, Ministry of Health, Dr. Folakemi
Olomojobi , who spoke on behalf of the
Commissioner, disclosed that the disease had
attacked about 300 students, but pointed out
that only 20 of them were still being attended to
while others had been discharged in batches.
Dr. Ojo said the Ministry of Health had brought in
environmental health officials, while many
professionals were still being deployed to nip the
crisis in the bud.
“We had alerted the water corporation to
chlorinate their water. They have about six
boreholes and we have got them chlorinated,
because we knew as professionals that the water
could be a source.
“We are trying to look into their environment so
that we can get where such could have broken
out. We want to know how they dump their
faeces and how they dump their sewages.
“We have taken their blood samples of students
infected to the hospital and preliminary test
shows that it was not cholera. It was diarrhoea
and vomiting. We are sending the samples for
further test to confirm that it was not cholera”,
she said.
The commissioner urged the members of the
public not to exhibit fear, saying government
would take every decisive action to put the
situation under control.
SOURCE: NIGERIAN TRIBUNE |
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