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Cholera kills 16 in Maiduguri IDP camp

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Having being driven from their homes and towns by the insurgency war, occupants of camps set up for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are not finding life easy as 16 people have reportedly died, while 172 are being hospitalized due to a cholera outbreak.
The World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF battling the epidemic which has affected three of the camps within Maiduguri, Borno State, have left 16 people dead and 172 in critical conditions, with
However, Information Officer of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) Mallam Abdulkadir Ibrahim, says it was not an outbreak of cholera, but reported cases of diarrhoea and vomiting.
The affected camps are those housing IDPs from Mafa along Dikwa/Ngala Road.
Health officials at the camp said that so far, 16 people had died of the outbreak, while 172 were in serious condition as they work with international organization to bring the situation under control.
A health official working with UNICEF said yesterday, that “The situation at the camps is terrible. It was sudden and already a large number have been affected.

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“At the last count, we have 16 dead and about 172 affected. We are in an emergency health situation in those camps.”
It was also gathered that the affected IDPs were prevented from leaving the camp by security agents in a move to prevent spread of the disease into the metropolis until the situation is brought under control.
Also, those affected have been separated from the unaffected, and all the IDPs are being treated with preventive medicine.
Another medical official said: “The camps are unkept, unclean and with all sort of waste all over which informed the outbreak and encouraged its wild-fire spread.
“We are doing everything possible to ensure that we control the spread. We encourage the IDPs to ensure cleanliness.”

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