Six persons have died and 40 others have been hospitalized as a result of a cholera outbreak in the Jukun hamlet of Didango in Taraba State’s Karim Lamido Local Government Council.
The council’s chairman, Sunday Danjos, disclosed the terrible news over the weekend during a press conference in Jalingo, the state capital.
He urged the afflicted community to be patient, saying, “I want to call on my people to exercise patience with the current happenings, particularly in Jukun, Didango, of Karim Lamido Local Government.”
Danjos went on to say, “The pandemic is cholera; this is due to the bad water people drink.” They drink it with the animals, which has harmed their health by causing them to purge and vomit.
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“I am going now to see the Commissioner of Health to report to him what is happening in my local government so that he will take it to the higher authority for necessary action.”
According to neighbors, the outbreak began on Thursday when people, particularly youngsters, began getting diarrhea.
Dr. Bodiya Buma, the Commissioner for Health, verified the incidence and said that the state government is actively trying to address the situation.
The outbreak, which started on December 14, 2023, claimed the lives of six children, according to Fredrick Nyanganji, the Director of Primary Health Care for Karim Lamido Local Government.