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Cholera Outbreak / Nigeria
Following the reported outbreak of an alleged cholera epidemic in two local government areas of Ogun State, private and public hospitals across the Abeokuta metropolis have witnessed an increase in the number of patients on admission for the decease. This is just as the state government confirmed the spread of the disease to Odeda and Owode Obafemi local government areas in addition to the already identified Abeokuta North and South local government areas
. Death toll in what the state government described as “unhygienic condition of the affected areas” has also continued to rise, with causalities cutting across age and gender. Ogun State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Olaokun Soyinka confirmed that 104 cases were already listed in what he described as “gastroenteritis” disease in Abeokuta South, especially in Ijaye and Adedotun in Abeokuta North local governments, asserting that only three deaths have been recorded in the epidemic, which he stressed was not related to cholera.
Soyinka, who emphasised that the outbreak of the epidemic was as a result of water contamination, however, called on the state water corporation to rise up to the situation. Saturday Mirror’s visit to the state hospital, Ijaiye and the Federal Medical Centre, Idi-Aba, in Abeokuta revealed that dozens of residents are either being hospitalised or treated for the water-borne disease. Patients included a traditional ruler, an official of the National Agency for Food, Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) as well as a state Correspondent of an on-line media company, who was discharged last Thursday.
Though management of the hospital has refused to confirm the disease as cholera, a special patient ward has, however, been created for those on admission as a result of the epidemic. Chairman of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) in Ogun State, Dr. Olusoji Jagun, said the association got a report of pockets of gastroenteritis outbreak, adding that laboratory investigations were on to really determine the real cause of the outbreak.
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