One student of Government Girls Secondary School Kawo, Kaduna have been reportedly killed as a result of cholera outbreak in the school.
Report says 55 student have been admitted at a General Hospital in Kawo.
Earlier, Director Public Health in the Kaduna State Ministry of Health, Dr. Ado Zakari, was sighted at the school alongside officials from Federal Min of Health addressing students on how to prevent further spread.
Director Public Health in the Kaduna State Ministry of Health, Dr. Ado Zakari, was sighted at the school alongside officials from Federal Min of Health addressing students on how to prevent further spread.
Officials of Nigerian Red Cross were also sighted at the school supporting the evacuation of affected students to the hospital.
3 trucks had conveyed several students to Kawo General Hospital for treatment.
Some Environmental Health Workers had been drafted to fumigate the school premises.
A parent, Mr. Yakub Ibrahim whose daughter was among students taken to the Hospital told our reporter that he was scared of the situation.
“I want them to take urgent steps at halting the situation, so as not to go out of hands,” he said.
Addressing Journalists on the issue later in the afternoon, Commissioner For Education, Science and Technology, Ja’afaru Sani, assured the public that the situation is under control.
According to him 40 students were admitted at the Kawo Genral Hospital, while 15 had been treated and discharged.
“The situation has been under control. What happened was that during the weekend, because of the incessant power failure that were experienced in the area, some of the motorised boreholes malfunctioned. That really led to some of the students to be using the alternative wells that we have in the school.
“We suspect that that it is from these wells that are there, some of them with so many wastes around, that they contracted it,” he said.
