10 teachers die of food poisoning in Katsina

Ten secondary school teachers are reported to have died of food poisoning, and several others hospitalised in Katsina.
Investigations by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) showed that the incident occurred at the weekend at a workshop organised by the state Ministry of Education for some 650 teachers at Government Day Secondary School , Kofar Yan’daka, Katsina.


It was gathered that soon after taking their lunch, supplied by a popular corporate caterer on the fateful day, some of the teachers were vomiting and afflicted by diarrhoea, as a result of which they were rushed to the Federal Medical Centre, Katsina and the Police Clinic for medical care.
Ten of the affected teachers were said to have died as a result of the infection. When contacted, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Alhaji Khalil Musa, said: “I cannot comment on the issue now, because it is yet to be reported to the state government. I don’t want to preempt the government on the issue.''
The state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), ASP Abubakar Ibrahim, who confirmed the incident, said that only one teacher died, while 19 others were hospitalised.
He said that 12 of the affected teachers had already been discharged from the hospital, while seven others were still on admission adding that the police had already collected a sample of the food supplied by the caterer for clinical analysis.
A NAN correspondent who visited the hospitals reported that all the victims were being attended to by medical experts, while officials declined to comment on the number of casualties that were brought to the hospitals.

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