“Strange pile ailment kills 78 persons in Delta

Strange ailment suspected to be pile, currently ravaging various communities in Delta State, has reportedly killed seventy-eight persons in the last one month, investigation has shown.

With no fewer than thirteen Local Government Areas it has hit out of the twenty-five council areas in the state, the disease, sources said affects unsuspecting persons in strange and all manners of inexplicable symptoms, and its victims suffer untold situation with emitting white liquid and offensive odour from their anus.

In Asaba, Ughelli, Ibusa, Agbor, Okpanam, this “strange pile” which also had reportedly defiled medications, untold in the body of the victims via their anus like heat rashes, and a few weeks, developed into full blown “pile” in their anus with severe pains, especially during nightfall.

Although the State Ministry of Health claimed ignorance of the strange disease, but the Commissioner, Dr. Ononye Mordi attributed the disease to “dirty water”, had taken measures to critically examine its root cause.

At the Federal Medical Centre (FMC Asaba), where some affected persons frequent for treatment. Many of the doctors who spoke with our reporter on condition of anonymity described the disease as “strange” and perhaps substance taken from the doctors.

Dr. M.O Osarenkhoe who disagreed with the claims that it might be caused by dirty water, said if the disease defiles medications, it means “strange” but not known in medicine.

Some relations of the victims in Asaba and Ibusa who spoke with our reporter, one of them, Mr. Kenneth Ogwueze said: “we battled to save our relations, we took them to various hospitals all to no avail, we spent huge sums of money, we went everywhere, including native, yet they died with smelling with white liquid”.

Further investigation revealed that many of the dead victims were mainly females between 31 years of age, and 35 years and in most cases.

At the fate of thousands of herbal drugs being sold in Asaba, Ibusa, Okpanam and its environs, strange diseases apart from the current “strange pile”, and at every nooks and cranny, these herbal drugs sellers particularly at Ibusa-Asaba Junction, sell their products with convincing manners, and amazing low prices with mind blowing information that it cures over twenty strange diseases.

Madam Patty Molokwu, a businesswoman within Ibusa-Asaba Junction, alleged that the proliferation of herbal drugs in the state may have contributed to the strange ailments especially the “strange pile” currently in circulation in the state.

She however urged the state government to ensure ban of the herbal drugs, insisting that their activities in the recent times had portended increasing deaths of unsuspecting herbal drugs’ users across the state.