Cholera kills corps member in Kano

Cholera has killed a member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) serving at the Government Girls’ Secondary School in Kano.

Our correspondent reports that Abbas Lawal, 26, one of the 37 corps members serving at the college, died last Thursday.

Speaking to our correspondent, his roommate, (name withheld) said they had dinner together last Wednesday around 10pm.

“We ate together on Wednesday night before he went to bed. And on Thursday morning, he told me that he was stooling. When the problem became serious, he was rushed him to the Murtala Hospital, where he was treated. After the treatment, he felt better and we returned to the college,” the corps member said.

He however added that two hours after they returned to the school, Lawal collapsed and was rushed to the Infectious Diseases Hospital (IDH), where he died.

Our correspondent, who visited the Corpers Lodge, where Lawal lived till his death, reports that about 16 were sharing one toilet.

However, the state coordinator of NYSC, Mr. Abdulrashid Sanusi, who confirmed the death of the corps member, said it was not as a result of cholera.

“A corps member took ill, he was rushed to the hospital and thereafter he died. I don’t know what is news about that because death is natural. Nobody wants it but it happens. We have taken the body to the parents. I do not have any information that cholera broke out in that place because we have 37 corps members in that college. There is no history of any outbreak of epidemic in the school, I insist. We sought for the medical report but we are yet to receive it. You may wish to confirm from the hospital or institution where he was serving,” he said.