Fifty-one villagers in Isiolo County have been hospitalised after consuming meat from a camel carcass.
Isiolo General Hospital Medical superintendent Mohammud Guyo said the victims from Chumvi Yere Village, a majority of whom were children and women, complained of headaches, stomach-aches, diarrhoea and vomiting a few minutes after consuming the meat, Daily Nation reports.
He said at least 11 people complained on Friday and were admitted but the number increased today morning after 40 others complained of the same symptoms. Dr Guyo said an isolation ward has been set up to cater for the increasing number of patients with the same symptoms.
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He has appealed to well wishers and charitable organisations to offer a helping hand since some of the patients were still in the village. The Medical superintendent also said a group of specialists from the hospital have been dispatched to the village to treat those unable to be admitted at the hospital.
“The hospital is overstretched thereby creating the need to treat people close to their homes,” said Dr Guyo. He said those who have been admitted were responding well to the treatment.
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