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Cholera kills 100 in Jigawa

No fewer than 100 people have so far been confirmed dead as a result of a continued cholera infection that is ravaging in Jigawa State within one month.

The permanent secretary Jigawa State Ministry of Health, Dr. Salisu Mu’azu, confirmed the figure, in Dutse.

He said, ” as of last Sunday we have recorded over 100 death cases from 5,000 infected cases while currently over 251 are currently on admission at various health facilities as result of the Outbreak in 19 out of 27 local government in the state,” he said.

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Dr. Salisu Mu’azu, who related the causes of the outbreak with use of contaminated water, vegetables foods supply from river banks and lack of health seeking behaviours by the people.

According to him, out of 19 affected local governments that includes Hadeja local government recorded the highest number of cases followed by other local governments.

While speaking on measures to control the outbreak, the permanent secretary said, Jigawa state government with support from Unicef and Lafiya programme formed a rapid response team desperse across three zones in the state.

He said, state government opened up isolation centres in Hadejia, Gwaram and embarked on training surveillance, community awareness, establishment of treatment centres and spraying the communities.

When our reporter visited some part of the affected communities in the state like Zareku town area of Miga Local Government Area, it was discovered that between Friday night to Saturday eight people have been confirmed to have died as a result of the disease .

Also confirming the incident, a medical staff at the Zareku primary healthcare centre (name withheld) explained that the incident started on Thursday night and persisted until Friday were five people died on the same day.

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“We recorded the death of eight people, seven female and one male whom died as a result of cholera diseases in this town of Zareku,” he said.

He maintained that, from the commencement of the outbreak about 268 suspected cases were recorded while 145 cases admitted into the healthcare centre.

The medical staff who seek for more help to calm the situation decries for shortages of protection equipment and medicines for the patients.

A relative to some of the deceased persons Mr. Hassan Galadima narrated to news men how he lost two sisters to the incident within few hours.

Mr. Galadima maintained that, ” I lost my 16 years old younger sister Adama Galadima a day after I lost my elder brother’s wife who is 36 years old adding that as I’m speaking to you now the son of the deceased wife is also hospitalised”.

Also speaking to news men, the village head of Zareku town Malam Abdulqadir Ibrahim, confirmed the incident adding that ” I have never seen a similar disaster where five people died in the same time like this one throughout my life in this town”.

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