Ministry of health has finally speak on the contaminated flavour powder suspected to have killed four persons and injured 284 others six days after Kano Focus reports on the incident.
Kano Focus reports that the state commissioner for health, Aminu Ibrahim-Tsanyawa has told journalists on Tuesday that the ministry is awaiting the results of samples analyses to determine the disease and establish its cause.
He said his ministry is working with the National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) and the State Consumer Protection Council (KSCPC) to identify the root cause of the disease.
He added that government has deployed personnel and scaled up surveillance in the 44 LGAs to check the circulation of certain products suspected to have caused the disease.
According to him, “Water, blood and different instant drink flavour powder samples have been taken for tests to pin down a diagnosis, ranging from food-borne disease, food poisoning, Lassa Fever, Yellow Fever, Dengue Fever, Chemical poisoning to Toxix Hepatitis,”
The commissioner said the disease was suspected to be caused by a certain contaminated drink-flavour and a brand of expired instant drink product which some people bought and consumed in about 13 local government areas of the state.
He named the affected local government areas as Dala Gwale, Kano Municipal, Fage, Ungogo, Kumbotso, Tarauni, Bunkure, Rano, Dawakin Kudu, Dawakin Tofa, Gwarzo and Dambatta.
He also said the index case, a six-year-old girl developed abdominal pain, vomiting, jaundice and urinating blood (hematuria) after drinking water bought from a vendor who fetched from a borehole at a cemetery in the metropolis.
Credit; KANO FOCUS
