The Kebbi State Government has donated N10 million to the parents of the two sisters who allegedly died as a result of drug misapplication at the General Hospital in Zuru.
Spokesperson to the state’s Commissioner for Information and Culture, Ahmad Hussaini Aliyu, announced this on Tuesday in Birnin Kebbi, the state capital.
The two sisters, aged six and three, died on March 18 as a result of alleged negligence by some nurses.
The two nurses have been arrested and are currently under investigation by the Police in Birnin Kebbi to unravel what truly happened.
He said the state government had set up a nine-man probe panel headed by the Commissioner for Information and Culture Alhaji Yakubu Ahmed BK, adding that the Committee has begun action.
Aliyu quoted the Chairman of the Investigation Committee as saying the donation was meant to assist the family cushion the trauma of the tragedy, adding that the money was not meant to assuage the parents’ loss of his little daughters.
He said no amount of money can replace the lives of the babies, but hoped that the gesture was a help to the family.
The Emir of Zuru, Alhaji Mohammed Sanusi Mikailu Sami, urged the parents to continue to see their travail as an inescapable act of the Almighty Allah.
He commended Governor Nasir Idris for his relentless passion to help people in need and for taking immediate measures to deal with the deaths of the sisters.
He appealed to medical and other health workers to update their knowledge through constant training and retraining programmes to continue to be relevant in a fast changing world.
He warned that it is unacceptable for health workers to be so negligent as to endanger lives so recklessly.
Spokesperson of the family, Barrister Garba Abubakar Shehu expressed the family’s gratitude to the Governor for the support and for ensuring that the matter is investigated to ensure that it does not happen again.
