Director of Public Health in the state Ministry of Health, Dr. Ibrahim Alhassan, made the disclosure while speaking with our correspondent in Lafia.
He explained that out of the 800 confirmed cases, some of the patients have been treated and discharged from health facilities across the state. Alhassan said, “We have recorded 800 cases of cholera this year. Out of the number, some of them have been discharged. We have not been able to arrest the situation completely because some residents of the state are still practicing open defecation which is one of the primary causes of the disease.
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