The Ondo state government has assured local residents that the
strange disease that broke out in Ode Irele Local Government Area of the state
has been completely eradicated from the community.
It would be recalled
that the unknown disease which broke out last monthhas killed 23 people in
the area while some others are still in the hospital receiving medical
treatment.
Medical
practitioners traced the incidents to consumption of methanol poison,
Leadership reports.
Speaking
with journalists in Akure, the state capital at the weekend, Dr Dayo Adeyanju,
the state commissioner for Health, attributed the success in containing the
disease to the proactiveness of the state Ministry of Health, the National
Agency for Food Administration, Drugs and Control and other stakeholders.
“For the past 14 days, we have not recorded a
single case of methanol poison in this state, we have sensitised the people of
Ode Irele on the consumption of the local gin, ogogoro, pending the outcome of
the ongoing investigation.
“I
want to authoritatively tell the whole world today that the Ode Irele outbreak
has completely come to an end,” Adeyanju said.
According
to the commissioner, there were 33 people afflicted with the strange disease,
23 lost their lives while 10 were still alive and currently receiving treatment
at the hospitals in the state.
Adeyanju reiterated that
the consumption of ogogoro led to the outbreak of the disease. Therefore, the
state government made the decision to ban the consumption of the local gin.
Source:- Naij
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