The Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Emergency Working Group says no fewer than 130 people died of cholera in the state in 2018, calling on Zamfara government to halt the outbreak.
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The state Acting Epidemiologist, Dr Nuhu Bile, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria in Gombe.
Cholera is an infectious disease that causes severe watery diarrhea, which can lead to dehydration and even death if untreated, though it is caused by eating food or drinking water contaminated with a bacterium called Vibrio cholerae.
The latest outbreak comes less than three months after the state was declared cholera free
As of Friday morning, there have been more than 4,000 suspected cases, including 58 confirmed cases and 25 cholera-related deaths, WHO said
This call was made in the North East flash update on the Cholera outbreak by the UN OCHA made available to newsmen of Sunday in Abuja
A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria who was at Gwarzo General Hospital on Monday reports that some of the cholera patients on admission were lying on the floor due to over congestion in the wards.
The President of NUF, Augustine Chukwudum, gave the advice while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria in Enugu on the rise of environmental borne diseases in the state.
The Kano State Government has dispatched a team of health personnel to Bebeji Local Government Area of the state where an outbreak of suspected cholera was reported in three villages.
Alhaji Ahmed Abubakar, representing Funtua Local Government Constituency in state House of Assembly, disclosed this at plenary on Monday in Katsina.
The state Epidemiologist, Dr David Karatu, disclosed this in Gombe on Friday during a visit to the prison by officials of the state Ministry of Health.
Dr Mustapha Jibrin, the Commissioner for Health and Hospital Management, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Minna.
The Information Officer of the state’s ministry of information, Malam Mohammed Abubakar, made the announcement in a statement, saying the 12 new cholera cases were recorded on June 20 but with no death.
Dr Jibrin Mustapha, the Commissioner for Health and Hospital Management, made this disclosure at a press conference in Minna on Wednesday.
A source who pleaded anonymity said the death may have risen above 15, adding: “There is only one doctor attending to patients at the Umaru Sanda General hospital.”
Commisioner for Health, Dr Bello Kawuwa, told newsmen that there has not been any new case of suspected cholera in the state in the last 21 days, which qualifies for the outbreak to be declared over.
The organisation on its Twitter Handle: @WHONigeria, on Saturday said a month into the outbreak, it has recorded 1,168 cases and 20 deaths in Mubi North and Mubi South Local Government Areas of the state.
Fani Mussa, Sumbawanga District Medical Officer, said that health experts have continued to strengthen efforts to battle the water-borne disease that can cause acute diarrhoea.
Deyin, who disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria in Jos, said that three other persons had died with symptoms suspected to be cholera.
The Information Officer of the Ministry, Abubakar Muhammed, confirmed the number, via a statement he issued on Sunday in Yola.