No fewer than eight of 25 cases of cholera recorded in Anambra in
January 2015 have died, the state Commissioner for Health, Joe Akabuike, has
said.Mr. Akabuike said this in Awka on Tuesday while receiving
drugs and hospital equipment donated by a pharmaceutical company based in
Lagos.
He said that the outbreak recorded in Innoma Community in
Anambra West Local Government Area of the state was already under control.The commissioner said that a team of doctors and nurses were
immediately deployed to the area as soon as the outbreak was reported.