Management of Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital (UDUTH), Sokoto, says there is no outbreak of a strange disease in the hospital contrary to the rumours making the round.
Chief Medical Director (CMD) of UDUTH, Dr Anas Sabir, stated this in a statement issued by the hospital’s Head of Public Affairs Unit, Malam Buhari Abubakar, in Sokoto on Saturday.
Sabir said the clarification had become necessary because of a viral audio with an unknown claiming that a patient brought to the hospital from Kaduna State died of a strange disease three days after being taken to the health facility.
He said the voice attributed his source to two different FM stations operating in the state, claiming that 15 other patients died of the same disease in the hospital.
His words:
“For the avoidance of doubt, the management of the hospital wishes to make it categorically clear that it has not, up till this moment, received any such case from Kaduna or anywhere in the country.
“The hospital is free of any outbreak of disease or epidemic. Therefore, the said claim in the audio is totally false, baseless and mischievous.”
The CMD said that the hospital’s management had contacted the authorities of the said FM stations, who, according to him, said that they were misquoted and clarified that UDUTH was not, at any point, mentioned in their reports.
He stressed that the general public should note that while the hospital has nothing to hide, it also has standard protocol and capacity to manage emergencies any time they happen.
Sabir urged the public to remain calm while assuring that the hospital environment was free of disease outbreaks, as claimed in the audio.
