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Diarrhoea kills one pupil in Kaduna
A pupil of the Government Girls’ Secondary School, Kawo, Kaduna State, died at the weekend following the outbreak of cholera in the school.
About 40 others are hospitalised.
Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology Jafaru Sani confirmed this.
When The Nation correspondent visited the school yesterday, officials of Red Cross Nigeria, who were at the school with other emergency organisations, said 42 other pupils were suffering from diarrhoea and vomiting due to the unhygienic environment.
The Nation, June 5, 2018
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