Dr Oluwafemi Akinpeloye Angela Onwuzoo As cholera rages in the country, public health physicians have stressed the need for hospital management to restrict families from visiting loved ones on admission to being treated for the diarrhoeal infection. The experts said reducing such visits had become crucial to further curb the spread of the highly infectious disease through human-to-human transmission. The medical practitioners noted that families have to be cautious when they have their loved ones infected with cholera and allow the health workers alone who have been trained in the management of the disease to take care of them.
No fewer than 40 deaths have been recorded in the current cholera outbreak, which has hit 30 states, including Lagos and Ogun. Cholera outbreak The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof Akin Abayomi, as of Friday, said the cholera fatalities have risen from 21 to 24. Lagos Health Commissioner, Prof.
Akin Abayomi He disclosed this in a post on his Instagram handle. Abayomi noted that the situation report, as of 19 June, shows 35 confirmed infections out of 417 suspected cases recorded across 20 Local Government Areas in the state. On her part, the Ogun State Commissioner for Health, Dr Tomi Coker, said the state had recorded one death and 14 cases.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, in its recent report, said from January 1 to June 11, 2024, over 1,141 suspected and over 65 confirmed cases of cholera, resulting in over 30 deaths,.
