Strange Deaths: Enugu Gov’t Sends Patients’ Samples For Testing

Following reports of alleged unusual deaths in Ette Uno and Umuopu communities of Enugu-Ezike in Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area of Enugu State, the state ministry of health said it had collected samples from patients and sent to the National Reference Laboratory for investigations.

A statement by the state commissioner for health, Dr Emmanuel Ikechukwu Obi, revealed that the state’s rapid response team of the ministry had visited Igbo-Eze North LGA and met with the LGA’s rapid response team. According to the statement, ‘on-the-spot-check and outbreak investigation have revealed a number of deaths from an illness with symptoms suggestive of a disease of public health importance’.

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Dr Obi said the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) had been informed ‘and is collaborating with the Enugu State Ministry of Health at the LGA to investigate and control the reports’.

Obi therefore assured the general public that the ministry was on top of the situation and would continue to inform them as facts emerge.

THE WHISTLER earlier reported how the strange disease had killed scores of people, including an undergraduate of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

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