Following the reports that three persons have been confirmed dead while three others were hospitalized as cholera broke out at Oke-Gada in Ede North Local Government, the Osun State Government has revealed that samples have been taken for laboratory analysis.
While speaking with journalists, the State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Rafiu Isamotu said that the results were still being awaited.
Contrary to the information, Dr Isamotu revealed that the symptoms that presented from the three persons that have died so far clinically looked like cholera.
The Health Commissioner, however, explained that the cause of the hospitalisation and subsequent deaths of the three persons who were beggars from the Northern part of the country could not be described as cholera until laboratory tests ascertains it to be so.
He said: “The symptoms clinically looks like cholera but in medicine, we don’t just speculate and conjure.”
“We have taken the samples to the laboratory and are still awaiting results before we can boldly say it is cholera. The laboratory diagnosis must confirm our suspicions first”, he added.
The Commissioner also confirmed to our Correspondent that only three casualties have been recorded so far, with one death on Sunday evening and two on Monday.
“They were admitted in a health facility in Ede. Six persons have been discharged from the hospital while we have hope of discharging the remaining three this morning.
“I have been to Ede to see their Seriki Hausa and we have talked,” he added.
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