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The group's team leader, Mr. Baba Galadima, made this known during a visit to badess and monitor cholera in Zamfara on Wednesday.
Galadima said that the state was to reduce the number of deaths from cholera by 90% because it was a major public health problem.
According to him, a report from the Nigeria Center for Disease Control indicates that as many as 44,201 suspected cases, with more than 836 deaths, have been reported to date by 204 LGAs in 20 states by 2018.
Cholera continues to hit communities across our country, the state of Zamfara is currently facing the largest cholera outbreaks with more than 8,331 suspected cases and more than 130 deaths reported in December 2018.
Since the beginning of 2018, more than 186 people have died of cholera in the state of Katsina and about 100 in the state of Sokoto, while the state of Kebbi has reported more than 100 cases and few deaths.
He described cholera as an illness of iniquity that only sickens and kills the poorest and most vulnerable people, claiming that the cholera map is essentially the same as a map of the poverty.
He stressed that cholera could be managed with a multi-sectoral approach, including basic water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services and oral cholera vaccines, saying that a health intervention alone would not solve it.
Galadima noted that it was possible to avoid deaths due to cholera with the tools currently available in Nigeria, stressing that the goal of ending its impact on health public was within reach.
He also called for a budget allocation for sanitation and hygiene, adding that the federal government had stated that it would not be as if nothing had happened, that states needed to start contributing. .
Alhaji Sani Yaro, program manager at the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency of Zamfara (RUWASSA), said that the agency had set up a center emergency operations to provide information and respond to humanitarian needs.
He listed the problems of insufficient funds and insufficient resources for the construction of toilets, claiming that the state had formed the WASH committees of communities affected by cholera to convey the message of hygiene.
While congratulating UNICEF for its intervention, Yaro said 35 new boreholes had been drilled in some cholera communities.
He added that the rehabilitation of 80 handpump and five boreholes has been planned to help intensify interventions to meet the sanitation and hygiene needs of communities.
The program manager said the agency had also conducted a sensitization and social mobilization campaign by urging 105 communities to undertake community-led total sanitation so that people end the practice of defecating in the community. Free air.
Yaro pledged the state 's commitment to pay his counterpart funds for sanitation and hygiene development, noting that this sum was already provided in part.
The Nigerian News Agency (NAN) announced the creation of the WASH Working Group in an emergency situation in 2012, when the country had experienced devastating severe floods that affected 85 million people from 14 countries. States.
The group has since remained active, particularly in the north-east, where displaced people live, and reacted immediately in the event of an epidemic.
Group membership includes WASH actors from institutions, development partners, local and international NGOs and civil society organizations working on WASH issues in the Northeast. UNICEF as co-leader.
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