.Agency deploys medical team as nine persons feared dead
Rivers State Ministry of Health and the office of the state’s representative in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has disagreed over an alleged cholera outbreak in Soku Communities, Akuku-Toru Local Council of the state.
While the Commission noted that leaders of the Community had drew their attention to the outbreak in a letter of complaint addressed to the Rivers State representative of NDDC, Tony Okocha, raising the alarm that the development was occasioned by contaminated drinking water, adding that if not mitigated urgently, there will be harvest of deaths, the Commissioner of Health, Dr. Adaeze Chidimma Oreh, in a reaction, said that there was no confirmed Cholera outbreak in the area.
According to her, “Cholera, which is a water-borne infectious disease, is a notifiable disease warranting escalating reports from disease surveillance and notification officers at the community level.”
Meanwhile, following the alleged Cholera outbreak in Soku Communities, NDDC, through the state Office of the Commission, said it has deployed medical personnel and response materials to the area.
The Guardian gathered that the suspected Cholera outbreak, which has been going on between last December and now, had claimed nine lives, while some people have been hospitalised with high fatalities.
It was learnt that the leaders of Soku, in a letter of complaint addressed to the Rivers State NDDC office, raised the alarm of a Cholera outbreak caused by contaminated drinking water.
