{"id":8014,"date":"2024-06-24T18:03:22","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T18:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=8014"},"modified":"2024-06-24T19:43:02","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T19:43:02","slug":"lagos-assures-residents-not-to-panic-as-death-from-cholera-outbreak-hits-29-with-no-case-recorded-in-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2024\/06\/24\/lagos-assures-residents-not-to-panic-as-death-from-cholera-outbreak-hits-29-with-no-case-recorded-in-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Lagos assures residents not to panic as death from Cholera Outbreak hits 29 with no case recorded in school"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Lagos State Government has urged residents not to panic over the current Cholera Outbreak assuring that appropriate measures have been activated to curtail the spread.<\/p>\n

It also said that so far the state has recorded 29 fatalities from 579 cases while 30 patients some with severe cases are now left being attended to.<\/p>\n

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The State Commissioner for Health, Prof Akin Abayomi disclosed this at a joint media briefing in Alausa, Ikeja.<\/p>\n

He said that the state is still tracing where the current outbreak emanated from but quick to add that handful of patients during clinical examinations said they consumed liquid street beverages.<\/p>\n

Prof Abayomi noted that the state government is paying attention to water used by the street beverages producers to check if it meets NAFDAC standard.<\/p>\n

According to him, test conducted so far was yet to confirm consumption of street beverages as the cause of the outbreak adding the test are still under monitoring.<\/p>\n

He disclosed that Governor Sanwo-Olu already directed heightened surveillance and regulations ahead of the rainy season but the Cholera hits the state implying we are also prepared ahead.<\/p>\n

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The commissioner further said that there is no denial of Cholera Outbreak as against what some residents did during COVID-19 that took up to two weeks before they come to terms with it.<\/p>\n

He said that some severe cases among those left on admission experienced dehydration but they have been rescued from dying.<\/p>\n

According to him, most patients that lost their lives were brought in dead or with severe cases stressing that anyone with symptoms of cholera should visit the nearest hospital immediately<\/p>\n

On his part, the State Commissioner for Basic Education, Jamiu Alli-Balogun clarified that the state had not recorded any outbreak in schools.<\/p>\n

He explained that some of the necessary measures in place include checking the food vendors to ensure proper hygiene is observed.<\/p>\n

Jamiu Alli-Balogun added that a team has been set up to monitor development with information on hot line to call in case of emergency adding sch is extended to all private schools and Tertiary institutions.<\/p>\n

On behalf of the Ministry of Environment, Dr Tunde Ajayi advised residents on proper disposal of sewage while noting that standard hygiene among residents cannot be undermined.<\/p>\n

He however noted that open defecation is a behavioural problem and not connected with the cholera outbreak.<\/p>\n

Dr Ajayi beleives that a community led campaign and enlightenment to change the attitude is crucial.<\/p>\n

ost public facilities have a normal toilet.<\/p>\n

The LASEPA General Manager noted that ppulation explosion is also a major issue confronting the state in which some first comer lands in uncompleted budings without proper hygiene reason he said the state introduced LASRRA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Lagos State Government has urged residents not to panic over the current Cholera Outbreak assuring that appropriate measures have<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-grassroots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8014"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8020,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8014\/revisions\/8020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}