Cholera Outbreak: NCDC May Declare Emergency, Lagos Issues Safety Guidelines

THE Director- General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, NCDC, Dr. Jide Idris, yesterday, disclosed that the center is considering declaring a state of emergency on cholera if cases recorded go beyond manageable threshold.
Olajide said this during the Adetokunbo Alakija Memorial Travel Medicine Lecture held at Civic Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos, organized by the Nigerian Society of Travel Medicine.
The NCDC boss insisted that based on the data that would be obtained from all the partners involved in the assessment, “if they look at the data and they decide that the situation has gone beyond a particular threshold, then we call it an emergency situation.”
He said: “So when they come, when they bring the data if it has gone beyond a particular threshold, we declare an emergency.
“We have been tracking cholera cases and we are documenting them. For the last two or three weeks, the incidence shot up, with a rising number of deaths and that is why we started investigating and this is where Lagos State came in.”
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