Kaduna State Primary Healthcare Development Agency has disclosed that one death has been recorded out of 86 suspected cases of cholera in the state.
It is against this background that the Rapid Response Team (RRT) Kaduna State Ministry of Health, in Southern Kaduna, met with District Social Mobilisation Officers, traditional, and Security Agencies among other stakeholders to deliberate on measures to curtail the spread.
During the presentation, the WASH Coordinator, Kaduna State Primary Health Care Board, Mallam Halliru Usman, emphasized on the need for continuous sensitization programmes about the outbreak of cholera and various ways it could be contacted, its signs, symptoms and prevention.
Halliru Usman urged the people to take any suspected case of Cholera, Lassa fever and Diphtheria among other communicable diseases to the hospital, restating the state’s readiness to respond to the disease.
Also speaking, the Advocacy and Social Mobilisation Officer, Solomon Bawa highlighted that Children under the age of five have the highest rates of infection.