Cholera: Intensify environmental surveillance – FG tells states, LGAs

These places include markets, garages, schools, restaurants, stadia, and religious and sporting events venues.

He also urged all Commissioners for Environment and the Local Government Chairpersons to support environmental health officers across the country to step up sanitation and hygiene activities through enhanced community-led total sanitation. Salako noted that recent situation report from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control indicated a total number of 1,159 suspected cases, 65 confirmed cases and 30 deaths across 30 States.

“The ministry has been involved through water and food testing to identified sources of infection, environmental sanitation campaigns and household water chlorination,” he said.The minister identified cholera as a poor sanitation and hygiene driven disease and an acute diarrhoea infection caused by ingestion of unwholesome food or water contaminated with the bacterium vibrio cholerae.

“The common early symptoms are frequent watery stool that is usually milky white in colour, nausea and vomiting. “The World Health Organisation has confirmed the global resurgence of cases of cholera classifying the current outbreak as “grade three public health emergency”, requiring maximal WHO system wide response.The minister urged the populace to be more vigilant and to imbibe good sanitation and hygiene practices at home and in their workplace.

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