The Kebbi Government has commenced training of environmental health officers, health educators and water sanitation and hygiene coordinators on emergency response to cholera outbreak in the state.
Alhaji Nuradeen Kangiwa, the Commissioner for Water Resources and Rural Development, said at the opening of the training in Birnin Kebbi on Wednesday that the training was part of precautionary measures to prevent the spread of the disease.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that no fewer than 204 people died and 2,551 hospitalized on Aug. 11 following an outbreak of cholera in 20 local government areas of the state.
Kangiwa, who was represented by Alhaji Muhammad Bala-Yelwa, the General Manager of Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency, said
that the training was organized in collaboration with UNICEF and USAID.
He urged the participants to use the knowledge they acquired to prevent incidences of cholera.
In his remarks, Alhaji Murtala Jibrin, the state’s Disease Surveillance and Notification Officer, Ministry of Health, said the training of health educators would help at community level, especially on emergency response to the outbreak.
“This training has come at the right time and I am calling on the health educators to cascade down the knowledge acquired to sensitize people on preventive measures against cholera,” he said. (NAN).
