Sokoto Meningitis Death Toll Rises To 21
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The death toll resulting from last week’s Meningitis outbreak in Sokoto State has reportedly hit 21.
This was according to the Sokoto State commissioner of Health, Balarabe Kakale, who confirmed the deaths in Kebbe, Bodinga, Rabah, Wamakko, Gada, Dange/Shuni and Tureta Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the state.
“These 14 deaths excluded the seven deaths earlier recorded in parts of Gada local government area,” said Kakale.
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The commissioner, however, noted that the state government had deployed over 150 health workers to the 23 LGAs across the state.
It would be recalled that the Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole, had lamented the outbreaks in both Sokoto and Zamfara states, describing the incidence as rather an unfortunate one.
“It has become an annual ritual under this administration; we would want to put an end to annual outbreak of meningitis in some of the northern states.
“I have just spoken with the commissioner for health in Zamfara who is appreciative of what the Federal Ministry of Health has been doing through the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control.
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“We have sent field epidemiologists; they are actually called disease detectives, to support them at the state level,’’ Adewole was quoted as saying.
