The Kwara state government has rejected all reports of an alleged outbreak of a mystery sickness that consumed 70 lives in Oro-Ago community in Ifelodun Local Government Area of the state.
The State’s Commissioner for Health, Alhaji Suleiman Alege, on Friday told newsmen in Ilorin, that the report is nothing but a rumor as the ministry has no confirmed outbreak of disease or fatalities in any part of the state.
The Commissioner recalled that when there were reported cases of cholera in some communities in the state, the government immediately deployed emergency kits to the affected areas and also commenced vaccination in most of the state primary health care centers to forestall outbreak of an epidemic.
He further explained that when the rumour persisted, the state epidemiology team was redeployed to the community to verify and take samples for laboratory analysis.
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