Sixteen people have been killed in a fresh outbreak of cholera in Sokoto State, while 40 others are on admission in hospitals across the state, a health official has said.
Dr Bello Dahiru, who has been managing patients at the Primary Health Centre in Kasarawa, a suburb of Sokoto, the state capital, told an online publication, Premium Times, that the deaths and admissions occurred within the last three days.
The outbreak, officials said, had now lasted days, leaving residents of the state in panic.
It is not clear what the state government is doing to halt the epidemic, as calls made to the state Commissioner for Health, Ahmed Aliyu, were neither answered nor returned.
It will be recalled that recently, Kano State recorded an outbreak of the dreaded disease and many lives were lost in the wake of the outbreak.
Health institutions across the country have been battling with the challenges of containing the outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), a development that many believe has shifted attention of officials from other challenges in the sector. Premium Times
