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Maintaining Hygiene is Key to Eliminating Cholera _ Onojaeme

Delta State Commissioner for health Dr Joseph Onijaeme has identified hygiene as key to eliminating Cholera from the State.
Speaking during a press conference held at Asaba, yesterday, Dr Onijaeme said cholera was a national outbreak that was recorded February in Delta.
Highlighting the signs and symptoms as passage of watery stool and dehydration , he said the disease can only be contracted through consumption of contaminated food and water.
The commissioner who flanked by his counterpart in the Ministry of Information, Dr Ifeanyi Osuoza and Chief Press Secretary to Governor, Chief Festus Ahon said the disease surveillance and notification officers across the state have been engaging in advocacy on hand washing and not taking unclean water to eliminate the disease.
Noting that children were mostly affected, Onijaeme stated that 138 cases with 7 casualties have been recorded in the State.
“I said earlier that Cholera is a disease of poor sanitry environment. If you don’t keep your environment clean you don’t cooking of undercooked food, you are not susceptible to it.
‘’Maintaining hygiene is key to eliminating cholera from our environment and is common among villages that are spread across the water bank and we have in delta state the eight local government.
“They are readily drugs for management of cholera within the state is readily available to government and private establishment” he said.