The ambulance vehicles used in conveying the dead to the morgue
Two persons died in Ibokun, Obokun Local Government area of Osun
State and four others hospitalized after eating yam flour popularly
known as Amala with stew on Friday, Daily Trust reports.
One of those that died, Mrs Kehinde Fasanya was a staff of Obokun
Local Government but the identity of the second person could not be
ascertained at the time of filing this report.
The corpses of those that died have been deposited at the mortuary
of the Osun State General Hospital at Asubiaro in Osogbo, capital of
Osun State for autopsy to determine the true cause of their death.
Other people that ate from the food were rushed to Our Lady of
Fatimah Hospital at Jaleoyemi area in Osogbo but the doctors at the
hospital said their cases could not be managed there and referred them
to the Wesley Guild Hospital of the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching
Hospital in Ilesa for comprehensive treatment.
The incident has caused panic and apprehension in the state as
residents were already warning their relations within and outside the
state not to buy yam flour or eat the famous Amala delicacy.
The Commissioner of Health in the state, Dr Rafiu Isamotu said
necessary steps have been taken to unveil the circumstances surrounding
the incident and advised people not to panic.
He said the preliminary findings revealed that the family members
had been eating from the same yam flour in the past weeks and that the
poison in the food could be in the stew.
Isamotu who was at the hospital alongside the Director of Public
Health, Dr Adepoju Gbenga said experts have been deployed to the house
where the family members ate the food and that sample would be taken to
laboratory for investigation.
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