The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is scaling up treatment and prevention to curb the spread of cholera in Maiduguri in Borno State, Nigeria.
MSF has established a 40-bed Cholera Treatment Unit in Dala village, which has so far admitted 70 patients, set up an Oral Rehydration Point in Muna camp, and has a team of 14 Community Health Workers who are helping to find new cases and trace community members who may have come into contact with affected patients. Additionally, MSF is training state health and World Health Organization (WHO) workers in prevention and control methods.
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