By Salisu K Ismail
An outbreak of Cerebrospinal meningitis was reported in some parts of Jigawa state.
The rapid killer disease was said to have so far taken away the life of about 100 people mostly children under 11 years in Mele, Dungundun, Kanya Arewa and Dantanoma villages in Babura, Gumel, Maigatari and Suletankarkar local government areas of the state.
It's recalled that, few months back, the state (Jigawa) recorded similar outbreak around the Nigeria/Niger republic boarder communities where many underage children lost their live due to the disease.
NEWSKEEPER Reporter gathered that, a number of affected victims mostly children of 11 years down begin to lost their hearing due to non presence of available healthcare attendants for their aids
as both the victims and their parents were left helpless.
Reports says that, currently 360 cases were recorded as the disease continue to spreads in the state.
The Village Head of Dungundun, Malam Alkasim Yakubu while shedding more light to our reporter, said, "we lost 19 people in this village, majority were children".
"The disease started around April ending and continued up to the last month, so far the situation worsen some weeks back, the infection and death was high," he added.
Malam Alkasim noted that over 50 cases where recorded in the village, "19 died, 2 people lost ears (hearing), it was shocking, we never experienced such disaster".
"We took the patients to Danladin Gumel health post where many died there, some died at home before going to hospital," he explained further.
The Village Head also pointed that, Some of the victims from his village were referred to Gumel general hospital adding that, "the parents and the relatives of the victims paid their sons, daughters and relatives medical bills."
Also speaking the Bulama (village head) of Mele village in Gumel local government area, Malam Yusuf Ahmad said, "21 people died and over 30 cases recovered".
While the village head of Kanya Arewa in Babura local government area, Alhaji Akilu Dawaki stated that the CSM killed 19 people in his domain and recorded over 70 cases.
When contacted the state epidemiologist, under the ministry of health, Malam Samaila Mahmud confirmed the outbreak.
He said, "record available in the ministry indicated that 65 people died, 257 cases recorded in 18 out of 27 local government areas of the state.
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