The Minister of Health, Professor Isaac
Adewole has called on the parents and students of the Queens College,
Yaba, Lagos, and concerned Nigerians to remain calm, as he had directed
the Lagos State Ministry of Health, Community Health, and the Lagos
University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, to investigate and unravel the
causes of death of two students of the school.
In a statement issued by the Federal
Ministry of Health, it was gathered that the Minister, who was in Lagos
to commission the Secretariat of the West Africa College of Surgeons
obtained a distress call on an alleged outbreak of diarrhoea disease at
Queens College, Yaba, Lagos while at the Secretariat of the West Africa
College of Surgeons.
According to the statement, the Minister
diverted his convoy to visit the School in the company of the Chief
Medical Director, LUTH and met the representative of Lagos State
Commissioner for Health, Dr Erinosho and the Principal, Dr. (Mrs) Lami
Amodu and her staff.
He was told the school was currently on
mid-term break but there were two reported deaths of students at home.
One due to febrile illness and cause of the second was unknown.
Following his interaction, the Minister
has directed the officials of the Ministry of Health, Community Health,
and LUTH to ascertain the cause of death of the students, inspect the
school environment including the kitchen, examine the source of water
supply and text its suitability for human consumption and also visit the
bereaved families.
The report of investigation will be
forwarded to the Minister of Education who has been informed on the
steps taken, as the Minister assured government was on top of the
situation.
It was gathered that the nurse in charge
prior to mid-term break that started Wednesday, said no
student was admitted at the sick bay for any diarrhoea disease.
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