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The Incidence Manager and Director of Epidemiology at the State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Dr Kabir Suleiman at a press conference held on Wednesday, revealed that the state has recorded 118 suspected cases of Cholera.He also said it is fully prepared to prevent its spread and other vaccine-preventable outbreaks in the state.
According to him, the state government has also designated 34 comprehensive Health Centers with Cholera treatment units, and centres for admission of Cholera cases.Global Taskforce for Cholera Control shows that Katsina has 10 of its LGAs termed as high risk, with Funtua, Jibia and Batsari LGAs topping the list.
“For now, we don’t have an outbreak of Cholera but the state is fully prepared, basically we can coordinate any outbreak that affects the state at any point in time.“We have all the necessary gadgets needed from the LGA to the state level to respond to these outbreaks “We have a normal routine surveillance system that is working 24 hours a day, seven days a week and throughout the year. Through that, we can detect cases of all priority diseases like Cholera.
“We have maintained our system at alert, where we are at alert mode, rapid response team including the surveillance and notification officers have been trained where we emphasize the need for them to detect cases wherever they are.
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