FIVE REPORTED DEAD IN GOMBE FRESH CHOLERA OUTBREAK
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Five persons have been confirmed dead and 16 others hospitalized at the Primary Health Centre, Kembu in Balanga Local Government Area of Gombe state, due to a fresh cholera outbreak.
The state Acting Epidemiologist, Dr Nuhu Bile, who made this known to NAN, said, the State Rapid Response team alongside World Health Organisation had visited the scene immediately it received news of the incident.
According to him, 70 patients were treated and discharged, while the five people died before medical help could reach them.
He added that 16 others were being treated at the health centre for the disease.
Bile said the recent deaths had brought the number of cholera mortality to 13, while no fewer than 500 patients had been treated and discharged in the last five months.
The epidemiologist attributed the cause of the outbreak to the damaged five hand pumps in the community which forced people to seek unsafe alternative source of water.
He named some of the recently affected local governments to include Yamaltu-Deba, Funakaye Gombe with the most recent being Balanga.
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