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Borno Cholera Death Toll Rises to 18
By: myschooltalkpaul Date: September 12, 2018, 12:12 am
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Information reach myschooltalk team this morning, is that Four
more people have died of cholera in Borno State.This takes the
number of deaths from cholera outbreak in the North East state
to 18 from 14, as 300 new cases were recorded from September 5
to 7, 2018.
National public information officer of the United Nations Office
for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN-OCHA), Abiodun
Banire, stated in Maiduguri yesterday that the 300 additional
cases were recorded in eight new councils.
According to the statement, the fatality rate stood at 2.6 per
cent, after the state’s Ministry of Health had declared the
outbreak on September 5, 2018.On reported cases, Banire stated:
“The first suspected cases were recorded on August 19, 2018 in
the following councils: Jere (218 including two deaths),
Magumeri (156 including four deaths) and Maiduguri Metropolitan
Council (141 including five deaths).
Others are Chibok (85 including three deaths), Konduga (38
including three deaths), Kaga (28 including one death), Damboa
(eight) and Shani (six).“The response health teams requested
additional resource mobilisation to match the speed of the
outbreak in other places.
“Additional resources are urgently needed to strengthen the
response for timely containment of the outbreak.“Health partners
are using existing resources from regular emergency operations,
which are not enough for a full-scale response and in case of a
spread of the outbreak to other areas,” Banire explained.
The statement also listed the responses to mitigate further
spread of cholera, including that “The state Ministry of Health,
with the support of humanitarian partners, is coordinating the
response through the Emergency Operation Centre (EOC).
Coordination meetings are currently held twice a week at the
EOC, and daily at council level.”
Banire said that health organisations were carrying out risk
communications of regular and frequent visits to households to
encourage individuals with cholera-like symptoms to be screened.
He added that communicating at the household level enabled the
partners to visit 1,163 households to identify 18 suspected
cases of cholera.The most effective prevention measure against
cholera is basic hygiene practices, including the use of safe
water and proper sanitation,” he said.
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