A strange
illness has killed 50 children, while 40 others were hospitalized in Gidan
Dugus village of Wangara district, Dutse Local Government of Jigawa State.
According to
reports, the children under the age of five, are dying on a daily basis as a
result of high fever, stomach upset, vomiting, diarrhoea and shortage of blood.
Parents of the deceased children are mourning the death of their loved ones,
while those whose children were affected are living in fear due to their
worsening health condition.
A parents
who lost his seven children to the strange illness, Haladu Usman, said: “Within 14 days, I lost seven of my children,
three males, and four female. The children, aged between three and one and
infant, died one after the other, I lost three in a day.”
Another
parent, Salisu Abdullahi, said he lost four of his children in one week,
despite several efforts made to secure medication from nearby clinics. “I was
scared by this unknown sickness which consumed the lives of innocent children
of this community,” he said.
The ward
head of Gidan Dugus, Mallam Umar Dashiru, said what had happened was alarming
and pathetic, saying that the community now lives in fear and agony of seeing
its children die in numbers. He explained that they reported the case to the
state government which sent a team of medical personnel to take blood samples
of some children for test, adding that results of the test were being awaited
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