No
fewer than 16 people have been confirmed dead with over 170 hospitalized after
a recent cholera outbreak at the three IDP camps in Maiduguri, the Borno state
capital. UNICEF officials and those from the World Health Organizations who are
stationed at the camps say the situation in the camp at the moment is terrible
and requires immediate and drastic action.
“The
situation at the camps is terrible. It was sudden and already a large number
has been affected. At the last count, we have 16 dead and about 172
affected. We are in an emergency health situation in those camps.”one of the
officials told Vanguard in a telephone interview.
Meanwhile National Emergency Management
Authority Information Officer, Abdulkadir Ibrahim has denied the outbreak of
the viral disease but rather reported cases of diarrhoea and vomiting
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