Cholera Kills Five In Kano

The government of Kano State has confirmed that it had recorded five Cholera-related deaths in the state.

It also added that very strong preventive measures had been put in place to tackle the outbreak.

This was disclosed on Tuesday by the state commissioner for health, Dr. Aminu Tsanyawa at a news conference in Kano.

Tsanyawa said on April 16, 2022, a case of watery diarrhea and vomiting suspected to be due to cholera was reported in the Dambatta Local Government Area of the state, which was promptly investigated.

According to him, since then, a total of 189 cases in 20 LGAs were recorded, out of which 184 have fully recovered, 0 active cases, and five deaths.

He said Nigeria was still affected by cholera, especially during the rainy season, due to poor personal and environmental hygiene, sanitation, poor waste management, and open defecation, all of which promote feco-oral transmission, which is also the causative agent of the disease.

“You may wish to know that cholera outbreak is seasonal and is a bacterial infection of humans caused by v.cholerae, which is a Gram-negative bacillus and any resident of a community under investigation, aged two years and above, with acute watery diarrhea with or without vomiting should be immediately evaluated for suspected cholera disease,” he said.

Also, the commissioner thanked the state governor, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje, for his commitment to providing adequate and qualitative health care services to the good people of the state, in order to eliminate cholera outbreaks, alongside other diseases in the state.