The states with the greatest cholera cases in the nation, according to the Nigeria Center for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC), are Cross River, Zamfara, Adamawa, and Ogun.
This was said by Dr. Sebastian Yennan, Incident Manager for the NCDC’s Cholera Technical Working Group, on Tuesday in Abuja during the regular meeting of the WASH in Emergency Working Group.
He asserts that the instances are updates from Epidemiology Week 39 at the center and that attempts are still being made to supply the impacted states and the rest of the nation with response supplies.
In collaboration with the WHO, the NCDC distributed infection prevention and control kits, WASH kits, and chlorine powder, among other things, as part of its intervention in the form of cholera case management, according to Yennan.
He said the kits given may potentially be utilized in emergencies like the Lassa fever and diphtheria outbreaks and that this intervention was being prioritized in the four states.
“The NCDC has partnered with a third-party logistics company in the distribution of commodities and also to bring samples, our cholera response is at the 36 states and the FCT.
“In Zamfara for instance, the governor visited the cholera treatment centre in Anka local government that was built by Doctors Without Borders/MSF, they have received response commodities”.
He added that the center was in charge of managing the Basic Health Care Provision Fund and urged governments to prioritize cholera prevention by making sure that money were allocated early and were available.
The fund, according to Yenna, was created to improve the federal healthcare system and calls for states to anticipate their needs in order to use it before, during, and after a disease outbreak.
Additionally, he exhorted all stakeholders to fortify their alliances in order to advance lobbying for the nation’s health emergency prevention.