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Cholera: One dead, 68 persons treated in Ebonyi – Official

byJames Eze
April 26, 2020
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The Ebonyi State Government said on Sunday that only one person died from the cholera outbreak in a community in the state.

The Commissioner for Health, Daniel Umezuruike, in a statement in Abakaliki, the state capital, also said 68 people were successfully treated and discharged in Ameku, Ohaukwu Local Government Area of Ebonyi where the outbreak was recorded.

He said the deceased is a woman while her son recovered from the illness.

There had been different reports that 10 or more people died from the disease.

But the commissioner said only one person died.

Mr Umezurike said he visited the health centre in the community to ascertain the details of the cholera outbreak.

He said the 68 persons that were admitted at the health centre have been treated and discharged and that no case of the disease has been recorded again in the community.

He said, “In Ameku, Okposi Ward 11, Ohaukwu local government area of Ebonyi State where we have an outbreak of cholera that has affected 68 people. So far, all the patients have been successfully managed and discharged home, the only person that died was the index case that was brought from another village where someone is said to be a patent medicine dealer and he attends to people and the mother was staying with him and all of a sudden, they reported that the mother died and they brought her to their village and buried.

“Few hours after the burial, so many indigenes of the village started having abdominal discomfort, vomiting and diarrhoea. So many of them were affected at the same time. Immediately we were alerted, we sent an advanced team headed by the state epidemiologist, WHO and other partners who went there and met 20 people on admission and of that time, about 38 people were affected.

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“They commenced all the interventions because they went with all the intervention materials including IVR, ORS, antibiotics, zinc tablets among others and commenced treatment and all of them were successfully managed and discharged home.”

He blamed the outbreak on poor hygiene by the people of the area who he noted still practice open defecation.

“I visited the affected community and no single person is still sick but we carried out health education and public awareness campaign to discourage open defecation. We found out that the main health issue they have is that they don’t have toilet facilities in that community.

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“Their source of water is good which is boreholes. The people were happy with our interventions and subsequent visit and promised to construct VIP toilets in all the families by themselves while government will help to upgrade the health post in their area to a Primary Health Centre status.”

The commissioner also said only two persons died of Lassa fever this year in the state.

“With respect to Lassa fever, we have managed a total of 85 cases this year in Ebonyi State and unfortunately, we lost two people due to late presentation.

“At present, all the patients that suffered lassa fever this year have been discharged in the virology centre built by our governor in Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital Abakaliki(AE-FUTHA) and this is verifiable. If people are dying in droves in Ebonyi state, we would have still been having patients in the virology centre,” he said.

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