Health worker drowns, 3 others injured as boat capsizes

Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal

On Tuesday, August 30th, a boat capsized in Bafarawa river in Sokoto State leaving a health worker dead and three others injured. 

The deceased was travelling with three other colleagues in a canoe  to Bafarawa town on Tuesday when it capsised.

The deceased, (name withheld), and the three others, who were rescued, were among the officials conducting the ongoing Seasonal Malaria Chemo-Prevention Programme.

The four-day exercise, which will end on Sept. 2, was part of efforts to reduce the scourge of malaria in the state.

The Manager of the State Malaria Programme, Alhaji Aminu Umar, has confirmed the incident.

Umar told NAN in Sokoto on Thursday that one of the four officials lost his life

'' The others had since been discharged from the hospital, while the deceased had been buried according to Islamic rites.''

Umar said that he had led a delegation to Isa town to condole with the families of the deceased and sympathise with those of the others who were injured.

Source: Pulse news