Jero, a father of six, who is a vulcaniser, narrated: “By the time I was brought here, I had gone blind. I could not identify my wife, I could not identify anything. I did not even know when I arrived here. “But I thank God and the management and staff of University College Hospital, UCH, for bailing me out. I can see all of you here clearly. I can even identify the clothes each one of you is putting on.”
The victim commended the teaching hospital for its timely medical intervention which he said saved his life. Meantime, UCH management, yesterday, confirmed that five victims of Ode-Irele methanol poisoning were responding to treatment. The victims were said to have taken the methanol while consuming a local gin. Confirming that the toxin was detected in the blood and urine of the victims, Professor Temitope Alonge, Chief Medical Director, UCH, said the five victims were transferred to the teaching hospital on April 18 adding that they had regained their lost sight as a result of taking the chemical.
Alonge, who said this while speaking with newsmen in Ibadan, warned people to be wary of taking local gin so as to avoid s similar unpleasant experience.
According to the CMD, series of tests were carried out on the victims and the samples of the three drinks they took.
The medical practitioner said: “On April 18, the Consultant Pathologist with the Ondo State Ministry of Health, Dr. Osasan, called to seek the assistance of the University College Hospital, Ibadan, in the management of five patients who survived the Ode-Irele neuro-toxicity saga who were completely blind.
‘’We agreed to take over the management of the patients but requested for the samples of the local gin that were incriminated along the fresh blood and urine samples of the patients. ‘’I contacted the consultant neurologist on call, Dr. Steeve Oluwole for a comprehensive evaluation of the patients because of the clinical presentation of the patients that had died and the ones that survived since they all pointed to neurotoxicity".
’In addition, the clinical pharmacologists led by Professor Catherine Falade, the laboratory scientists and specialists advisers to the hospital, Professor Segun Ademowo, were all contacted for the biochemical analyses of the blood of these patients as well as the urine in addition to the three samples of local gin that was reportedly consumed by the patients. He added that all the relevant health personnel worked for almost two weeks before they detected the likely cause of the neurotoxicity exemplified by sudden blindness and correlated their findings with the toxicants in the blood, urine and the local gin samples.
Culled from Vanguard.
49 comments:
More lesson, flee from ogogoro
Next time u see ogogoro am sure u will run.. If ogogoro is coming from the right, u will run from the left.. Sorry o!!!...
Next time u see ogogoro am sure u will run.. If ogogoro is coming from the right, u will run from the left.. Sorry o!!!...
I thought the methanol incident was in Ondo..... I see ibadan here which is oyo.. well sorry dude
Ehya..this is a lesson to others..cant anything be done for him?
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Thank God he survived it.
Aww! Thank God he can now see, and to think initially the gods were blamed for the incident. And one native doctor used the opportunity to stock his food store,
~BONARIO~says so via NOKIA LUMIA
Ewwwwwwww
what a pity im sure that after this incident he's still gonna drink more ogogoro @ askgidi.com
a.k.a EDWIN CHINEDU AZUBUKO said...
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So "the gods are not to be blamed" thats a name of a movie though.....
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***CURRENTLY IN JUPITER***
LOL
How is this possible?
LMFAOOOO. Read this story in Lagos and thank me later.
Nawa o!
hmmm so the issue is medical after all
* S M H * HOPE HIS EXPERIENCE WILL HELP DETER OTHERS FROM THE HAZARDS OF DRINKING OGOGORO
This oppotunity is called 2nd chance.
He should thank his stars .I expect him to run like Ussain Bolt anytime he comes across anything gin
Good work.Tim28
illiteracy
Na wa o
poisoned by the same thing you love. but I see him going back to ogogoro.
Pele ti e. If u see ogogoro in ur nxt lyf, u go tear race
They are so addicted to that drink.
Old habits die hard. I thought people have been advised to refrain from consuming local gin? Lucky man.
And the people of the land were saying they wronged their god. Naija I hail. "My people perish because of lack of knowledge".
Thank God you're alive and regained your sight! .... But if you and other victims had heeded to the advice of abstaining from alcoholism, you wouldn't have fallen a victim!!!
Ok I don hear
Dem send you?
So why did the oba lied that it was spiritual ? Nawa for illiteracy oh! Like our oga presido-elect. Make una lead us well oh! Anyway osibajo is there .
Somehow I think they'll still jump on the next bottle of 'ogogoro' they find.
Nawawo Nigeria
Thank God.
They'll surely publish this in a journal. D authors go full paper. Every staff down to cleaner sef fit wan him name dey there...hehehe
Hmmm....
Tnk God for your lyf
God help us...and thank GOD for him.. Team@seybyth
Thank God for restoring your sight
Fuck the Chief priest who sold that BlueTooth theory.
Thank God for their life dem for just die like dat so......longerthroat no gud oooo
Thank God for his life.
Thank God for his mercies
Hmmm
And some local champions were claiming it was as a resuly of fetish things..
Lol.. Am sure next time if u see ogogoro nobody go tell u 2run 4rm et... LoL...
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Dis happened in ondo state, nt ibadan.
This is a lie,mimiko's scheme to get money from federal government and WHO, I am from ode-irele and I live there when am not in school..people died from doing wrong by there gods.they moved a figurine dat has been in a shrine for 600years and sold it. Please don't bliv dis bullcrap, the governor is trying to mislead the public so as to get money
Am sure dey v all learnt der lessons in a vry hard way, nxt tym wen dey c or here ogogoro dey wl run lyk 100m b4 dey stop
I believe he will pick race nxt tym he sees ogogoro.
But that happened in Ondo. This is a survivor from Oyo. You did not read. Did you?
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