The Adamawa Government has confirmed the outbreak of cholera in the state, with 12 persons death recorded.
Chief Felix Tangwami, State Commissioner for Health and Human Services who confirmed the outbreak in a statement in Yola on Sunday, said six of the deaths were recorded at the facility, and six occurred at home while about 308 people were admitted with 244 treated and discharged.
The statement reads in part: “On behalf of the state governor, I want to inform you all that we have received the results of samples sent to NCDC for confirmation. It’s confirmed that what we are dealing with is acute watery diarrhea or cholera.
“Unfortunately, out of the 50 samples sent to the National Reference Laboratory, NRL, in Abuja, 30 samples returned positive for cholera, six came back negative, two were still ongoing, and 12 were still pending in isolation.
“With these results therefore, I want to confirm to the public that there’s an outbreak of CHOLERA in Adamawa state,and people should be cautious of their movements, interactions,personal hygiene,and the source of water they drink.
“The public is assured that the government through its health workers is doing everything possible by the grace of God to contain the situation as it has done in the past with other similar outbreaks.
“We ask that people should continue to pray for us as we face this monster. They should remain calm and cooperate with health workers as they go around to sensitise and give professional advice”.
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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