The House of Representatives, on Tuesday, called on the Federal Government to investigate and curtail the spread of an unidentified disease that has killed some persons in the Nafada Local Government Area of Gombe State.
The House asked the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare to urgently deploy its personnel to verify the nature of the disease.
The House also urged the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention to put up surveillance measures to contain the spread of the disease and ensure adequate treatment was extended to affected persons.
The resolution followed the adoption of a motion under matters of urgent public importance moved by Aboullahi El-Rasheed, the member representing Dukku/Nafada Federal Constituency, Gombe State.
El-Rasheed said the outbreak of the yet-to-be-identified disease was gradually spreading across communities in the Nafada LGA.
He added that the disease had claimed the lives of youths and children within the affected communities in the last few days, stressing that the number of victims continued to increase rapidly, thereby causing apprehension in the affected communities.
