Over 50 persons have lost their lives to a strange illness in Olamaboro Local Government Area of Kogi State.
It was gathered that the disease, which has yet to be identified, usually came with symptoms such as headache, red eye, loss of appetite, inability to urinate or defecate, convulsion, and finally death.
Recall that a similar alarm was raised last week by the state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Saka Haruna when he announced the death of two people in a Fulani and Tiv settlement in Odo Ere in Yagba West LGA.
The lawmaker representing Olamaboro Constituency in the Kogi State House of Assembly, Ujah Alewo, in a motion of urgent public importance on the floor of the House on Tuesday, said residents of Etteh community in Olamaboro LGA had been thrown into confusion by the outbreak of the epidemic, which was alien to them.
He noted that infected patients die within one week of contracting the disease.
He said, “All efforts to find solutions through the local herbs, as well as treatments at local health centers, clinics, and hospitals were not successful.
“The reports reaching my constituency office from the community leaders confirmed that over 50 people within ages 25 and 40 years died from September to date.”
Alewo urged the House to call the attention of the state government to send palliatives to the affected areas.
The Speaker, Mathew Kolawole, asked for a minute’s silence for the lives lost and said the House would write to Federal Medical Centre, Lokoja, for support.
