Frontline Medics Applauded For Reducing Cholera Impact In Zamfara

The Secretary to the Zamfara State Government (SSG), Malam Abubakar Nakwada, has commended the State Public Health Emergency Operations Centre (PHEOC), frontline wellness workers, and partners for achieving a importantly debased cholera fatality complaint successful the state.

The SSG met with the PHEOC, led by the Commissioner for Health, Dr Nafisa Muhammad Maradun, connected Friday to reappraisal the presumption of the cholera outbreak successful the state.

A connection by the Senior Special Assistant (Media) to the SSG, Suleman Ahmad Tudu, said that during the strategical meeting, the State Epidemiologist and person of the PHEOC, Dr Ahmad Muhammad Gusau, presented an elaborate update highlighting the trends of the outbreak crossed the 14 section authorities areas implicit the past 39 epi-weeks.

The information presented revealed that contempt signaling a precocious fig of suspected cholera cases, Zamfara State has managed to support its fatality complaint beneath the nationalist average. With 179 deaths retired of 12,052 suspected cases, the state’s cholera fatality complaint stands astatine 1.4 per cent. Comparatively, arsenic of September 2025 (epi-week 39), the cumulative nationalist lawsuit fatality ratio was 3.3 per cent, based connected information from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC).

According to him, this milestone is mostly attributed to the effectual lawsuit absorption strategies deployed by the State Government successful collaboration with partners and stakeholders.

These measures see the activation of Rapid Response Teams (RRTs), progressive surveillance, constitution of Cholera Treatment Centres (CTCs), and Oral Rehydration Points (ORPs) crossed the state, among different captious interventions.

While commending the PHEOC, frontline wellness workers, and different stakeholders for their dedication, the SSG urged them to intensify their efforts to incorporate the outbreak, lamenting that each information constituent represents a beingness astatine hazard oregon mislaid to the corruption threatening the authorities and the state astatine large.

Malam Nakwada besides reaffirmed the committedness of the Zamfara State Government nether Governor Dauda Lawal to implementing much effectual preparedness and effect mechanisms to mitigate aboriginal outbreaks.

Earlier, the partners commended the State Government for the punctual outgo of counterpart funding, proviso of potable drinking water, and the wide strengthening of the state’s healthcare system.