A non-governmental organisation, Solacebase Communication on Wednesday sensitised stakeholders, together with setting and well being officers in native authorities areas throughout Kwara State on the prevention, signs and coverings of cholera.
Founding father of the organisation, Abdullateef Jos pressured the vital position that main healtcare centres will play in stopping cholera outbreak within the state.
Jos urged the folks to take private hygiene severely and wash their fingers with cleaning soap often beneath working water.
He additionally charged the state authorities to place in place measures to eradicate open defecation and be certain that folks have entry to wash water.
Jos equally suggested the stakeholders on the occasion to return to their communities and sensitise residents about what they learnt from the occasion in direction of stopping cholera outbreak within the state.
The state’s Commissioner for Well being, Dr Aminat El-Imam, who was represented by Dr Ajao Shuaib of the division of Public Well being, counseled the organisers of the programme, saying it got here on the proper time.
El-Imam pressured that because the causes of cholera all the time come from the group, till the group is educated, it can’t be prevented or eradicated.
She additionally urged the stakeholders to sensitise their group on correct hygiene similar to common hand wash and cleanliness of their setting to stop cholera outbreak.
The Commissioner added that one other preventive measures is boiling of borehole water earlier than consumption from unsure sources.
“No single case of cholera in Kwara. Should you hear that your neighbour’s home is on fireplace, be prepared to assist them quench the hearth in order that it gained’t have an effect on your own home. That’s what we’re doing in Kwara. No single case of cholera, however we’ve put in place all of the measures to stop it”, the Commissioner stated.
The Deputy Director, Centre for Analysis and Improvement at Kwara State College (KWASU), Malete, Prof. Olalubi Oluwasogo harped on the discussion board, on the necessity to strengthen the well being system when it comes to common coaching of well being employees.
Prof. Oluwasogo defined additional that there’s additionally the necessity to attain out to far communities and disseminate correct data with respect to controlling the cholera illness.
He emphasised on the necessity to create extra consciousness concerning the mode of transmission, signs, therapy and the way cholera is prevented, particularly within the rural space.
He urged the general public to steer clear of shopping for sachets or bottle water that the NAFDAC registration quantity ends with ‘L’, warning that ” this suggests that NAFDAC is but to examine the services of such water factories.”
