Cholera Outbreak Kills Six In Kano
Kano State commissioner for health, Abubakar
Labaran Yusuf, on Sunday announced that six people have lost their lives
to cholera outbreak, while several others were infected.
Yusuf, who made this known to AFP in Kafin Dalawa village, which is
about 70 kilometres, 43 miles, away from the state capital, said: “Six people died out of the 46 cases recorded.”
The commissioner for health, who noted that the tragedy was caused
by contaminated water, revealed that medical teams had been dispatched
to sanitise the water sources as well as distribute drugs to the
affected victims.
Meanwhile, Surajo Alkassim, of ISMA Medicare Initiatives, a local
medical charity group placed the death toll on 16, adding that the
development is almost becoming a pandemic.
“We have recorded 16 deaths from the cholera outbreak in the
past six days, which has so far infected 701 people with 20 severe
cases,” Alkassim said.
According to him, they had been administering drugs to patients in a make-shift hospital in the village since the outbreak.
“The outbreak is becoming a pandemic in the area because
patients are trooping from neighbouring villages, which is putting a
strain on our team and medical supplies,” Alkassim added.
Cholera, which is caused by contaminated water infected by human
waste, is a very deadly disease that degenerates to diarrhoea,
dehydration and death, if not quickly attended to. The spread is usually
rampant during the rainy season, as water gets contaminated easily.
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