Gbenga Oloniniran As the country continues to grapple with the cholera outbreak, which has spread to 30 states, the Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr Jide Idris, on Wednesday, said the agency is considering declaring a state of emergency if cases recorded goes beyond the manageable threshold. He revealed this in Lagos during the Adetokunbo Alakija Memorial Travel Medicine Lecture held at Civic Centre, Victoria Island, orgainised by the Nigerian Society of Travel Medicine. He maintained that based on the data obtained from all the partners involved in the assessment if they look at the data and decide that the situation has exceeded a particular threshold, they can call it an emergency.
Idris said the agency was still awaiting reports from the investigation team. “So when they come, when they bring the data, if it has gone beyond a particular threshold, we declare an emergency,” he maintained. PUNCH Healthwise reports that as Nigeria battles a cholera outbreak, the World Health Organisation, the United Nations Children’s Fund, and the International Organisation for Migration held an emergency meeting in Lagos on Tuesday.
WHO, UNICEF convenes emergency meeting over Nigeria’s cholera outbreak – Healthwise (punchng.com) The WHO Country Representative, Dr Walter Mulombo, disclosed this on his X handle. The NCDC, in its recent report , said from January 1 to June 11, 2024, over 1,141 suspected and over 65 confirmed cases of chol.
