Cholera
23 Dec
South Sudan is facing a "completely overwhelming" influx of refugees from war-torn Sudan as well as a rapidly growing cholera epidemic, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned Monday. The medical charity said up to 5,000 people were crossing the border every day. The United Nations recently put the figure even higher at 7,000 to 10,000 a…
26 Nov
Amidst Cholera Outbreak in the country, the United Nations Sanitation and Hygiene Fund (UN- SFH) has provided a grant of $2.5million to WaterAid Nigeria to scale up sanitation and hygiene in Bauvhi state. The project tagged "Accelerating Inclusive Sanitation and Hygiene Economy in Nigeria" is a 30-month project to be implemented in four local government areas…
20 Nov
One person has been reported dead and more than 60 people have been hospitalised following an outbreak of Cholera in communities within the Kanam Local Government Area (LGA) of Plateau State. The Executive Chairman of the LGA, Ayuba Salihu Musa, who confirmed the incident through his media team head, Mazadu Ali, on Tuesday, said the…
19 Nov
No fewer than 1,160 patients were treated, as 25 persons die in gastroenteritis-related cases from January till date across 18 local government areas of Sokoto State. The Director of Public Health in the state’s Ministry of Health, Dr Abdulganiyu Yusuf, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in…
14 Nov
The Plateau State government has confirmed 10 deaths resulting from the cholera outbreak. The Commissioner for Health, Dr Cletus Shurkuk, confirmed yesterday during a live programme in Jos.
29 Oct
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22 Oct
No fewer than 10 persons may have died following the outbreak of Cholera in Enugu State. The Guardian gathered that the deaths occurred in one of the communities in Nkanu East Local Council of the state that shares a boundary with Ebonyi State.
21 Oct
Ebonyi State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Moses Ekuma, on Monday, said that the cholera outbreak that has ravaged the state since September 24 has recorded 28 deaths out of 386 cases. Dr. Ekuma revealed the figures during the donation of medical commodities by the governor’s wife, Mrs. Mary-Maudline Nwifuru, to the General Hospital in Iboko,…
20 Oct
The Commissioner for Health, Dr Moses Ekuma, has disclosed that the state has recorded 28 deaths and 386 cases since the cholera outbreak
18 Oct
There are no more oral cholera vaccines left in the global stockpile, the World Health Organization said Friday, with the shortage jeopardising work to stop the disease's spread. Global vaccine production is operating at full capacity, but demand is outpacing supply, the UN health agency said in its monthly situation report. "As of October 14,…
8 Oct
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has donated cholera response kits worth N113 million to stem the disease in Borno. UNICEF’s Deputy Representative in Nigeria, Dr. Rownak Khan, stated this while presenting the items to Borno State Ministry of Health, on Tuesday in Maiduguri. Khan said that the items included 30 Acute Watery Diarrhoea (AWD)…
8 Oct
Oyo state government has confirmed that 27 cases of cholera were recorded out of 245 suspected cases reported between Jan. 1 and Oct. 7. The state commissioner for Health, Dr. Oluwasherimi Ajetumobi stated this on Tuesday in Ibadan while briefing newsmen at the end of the weekly state executive council meeting. Ajetunmobi said that one…
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