These photos of children lying on the hospital floor in Zamfara with meningitis will leave you in tears

Pictures of children infected with meningitis lying on the hospital floor have recently surfaced online.

In the early hours of Friday, April 7, a Facebook user, Shanooun Sahnun shared photos of some children suffering from meningitis lying on the floor of Shehu Shagari Hospital in Zamfara state.

"This is Shehu Shagari General Hospital, Gusau Zamfara State, following pictures are for young children infected with meningitis disease in Hospital, please look at the way Abdul Aziz Yari Abubakar decided to put his state and claims that the disease was punishment from God; can this man has pity on his people?

Can he care about children? Can he allow his children to be treated such way? If you asked they will say they are waiting for Federal Government to intervene after all they grant, bailout, Paris loan refund."

Meanwhile Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara state insists the meningitis outbreak ravaging parts of the country is God’s punishment for peoples’ sins.

NAIJ.com recalls that the Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, had faulted statement credited to Yari that the meningitis outbreak was God’s punishment for peoples’ sins.

The Emir, speaking at KADINVEST 2.0, an event organised by the Kaduna sate government to encourage investments on Wednesday, April 5, said the explanation by the governor about the meningitis outbreak was Islamically incorrect to make.

However, the Zamfara state governor has stuck to his position, adding that he is ready show the Emir from the Quran and content of the Hadith where he got his fact from.