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Kano Moves To Unravel Cause Of Mass Deaths
Kano State government has finally responded to the people’s agitations and concern over reported mass deaths of people in the state.
Live news Nigeria gathered that the state government has begun verbal autopsy to ascertain the possible causes of the deaths and to enable the authorities to take the necessary measure toward ending the problem.
The government’s adoption of the verbal autopsy was made known by the Deputy Coordinator of Kano State COVID-19 Response Team, Dr. Sabitu Shu’aibu. He stated that the government had earlier put up a system to investigate if there was a link between COVID-19 and the deaths, adding that the system came up with the verbal autopsy method.
“Kano State government has begun house-to-house engagement with families of those that have died to carefully administer questions on the symptoms exhibited by the victims before they died. This is what is termed clinically as verbal autopsy and it will allow the health professionals to predict the possible causes of the recorded deaths,” he said.
Similarly, Dr. Usman Bashir of Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH), stated that in an environment where an autopsy is not conducted due to some issues and when the dead had already been buried, a verbal autopsy is the best way to go. He noted that it is apparent that such deaths must be recorded because all attention is presently focused on the epidemic while other sicknesses are neglected, stressing that the adoption of a verbal autopsy would unravel the mystery of the mass deaths.
“The verbal autopsies would surely unravel things that we are not even looking at because we have overstretched our energy and resources on COVID-19.
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