The Senate recently mandated its committee on health to investigate the recurring cases of cholera outbreak across the country.
The resolution followed a motion moved by Senator Olubunmi Adetunmbi (ACN, Ekiti North) on the worrisome cases of cholera that is ravaging parts of the country. While reports from the media in Nigeria claimed there were about 1,600 known cases believed to have been recorded in the five states of Yobe, Nasarawa, Benue, Kaduna in the North and Osun in the South-West; the United Nations (UN) reports that not less than 1, 500 people may have died from the recent outbreak of cholera in Nigeria with nearly 40, 000 persons infected; making it the country's worst outbreak in nearly two decades. The figure, according to the UN authorities, is more than four times the death toll reported by government in August this year.
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