Fifty-one inmates of Yolde Pate Correctional Centre in Adamawa state have been confirmed to be infected with scabies.
According to the state’s epidemiologist, Damba Kwinke, the first case was recorded in August 2023. He further revealed that investigations revealed that some of the individuals held in the Criminal Investigation Department at the state police headquarters were among those who had contracted the disease, including the index case.
Kwinke also revealed that scabies is caused by an infestation of parasitic mites that cause intense itching to the skin. The state epidemiologist who urged the authorities of the correctional centre to promote hygiene among staff and inmates to prevent the outbreak from spreading further, added that Yolde-pate Correctional Centre is currently the only facility in the state with recorded cases of scabies.
He said;
“The disease is highly contagious, and it can easily be transmitted from person to person, causing secondary skin infections”
Responding to the outbreak, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health, Barrister Isuwa Misali, delivered health kits and sanitary materials to the correctional centre to help address the issue.
The correctional centre received 16 different health items, including Sulphur ointment, sanitizers, face masks, hypo, hand wash, cotton wool, medicated soap, hard duty gloves, ORS, and Calamine Lotion.
10 Responses
This matter need to be investigated, no matter how, there is something fishing
abi dirty environment that really causes scabies
the government must intervern to make our correctional centres clean and conducive
i pray for quick recovery for those infected
Ahhh wahala is good to stay away from trouble to avoid prison
Too stay in prison sef get wahala make everybody get sense if not u go suffer
Can we get more facility and healthcare facility so that it can reduce and will spread
Nigeria,and they will use English to modernize it,correctional center,there is something i want to ask,is this how they do things in the develop country?,why is it that nightmares own is different?
Well only our government knows what is happening over there
The place is called correctional center on paper, but it is actually a place where criminals are trained, since it’s a place for the survival of the cruel.
Our leaders are not like we are human being at all.Because of power of everything!
Why wouldn’t they contact such diseases, when the prison itself is not even conducive for animals. Come to talk of human beings