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Strange illness hits Ekiti federal govt college
OCTOBER 22, 2015 : KAMARUDEEN OGUNDELE, ADO EKITI
No fewer than 300 pupils of the Federal Government Girls? College, Efon Alaaye, Ekiti State, have been hospitalised due to an outbreak of an unknown disease.
Signs of the outbreak of the disease started manifesting on October 10, when some pupils were said to have started vomiting and stooling, creating fears of a cholera outbreak.
But the state government through the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Olurotimi Ojo, has come out to dismiss it as ?diarrhoea? while medical investigation has begun.
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It was learnt that the school authorities had been taking the patients to Efon General Hospital in batches since the epidemic started.
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Of the about 300 pupils said to be infected, only 31 of them were still receiving treatment while others had been treated and discharged, a source revealed on Thursday.
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Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, Dr. Folakemi Olomojobi, who spoke on behalf of the Commissioner, confirmed that only 20 of the infected pupils were still in the hospital, adding that the ministry had brought in environmental health officials.
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