Cholera Killing Lagosians More Than COVID-19

• Cholera Killing Nigerians More Than COVID-19

EKO HOT BLOG reports that a Lagos based medical practitioner, Oluwaseun Rotimi, hasa said, though a lot of attention has been fixated on COVID-19 pandemic by health authorities and individuals, yet there are other terrible infectious diseases killing Nigerians more than COVID-19.

The Meddical Practitioner, pointed at Cholera, as a major menace that the authorities are not really taking serious.

According to Dr. Rotimi, he said in the outgoing year, 6, 633 Nigerians died from various cases of Cholera outbreak and the escalating COVID-19 pandemic in the country.

Facts and figures gathered from the NCDC showed that Cholera killed more Nigerians during the period than COVID -19 in 2021.

From January 1 to December 26, 2021, Nigeria recorded 3,014 deaths from COVID-19 in 36 states and FCT, while there were 3,519 Cholera deaths from January to November in 32 States and FCT.

As of December 19, 2021, Lagos State maintained the highest COVID-19 fatality rate at 757.

FCT is next with 125 deaths this year so far, bringing the total number in the state to 224, while Kogi and Zamfara recorded lowest deaths with 2 and 9 respectively.

But in the case of Cholera, as of November 14, 2021, Jigawa State recorded 516 cases, followed by Sokoto – 410 cases, and Kebbi – 374, 150 died Of Cholera in Niger, while Ondo, Osun, Cross River and Abia recorded lowest death rates at 1, 2, 3 and 3 respectively.

It could be recalled that Nigeria recorded the first case of COVID-19 in Lagos State on 27th of February 2020 till date, 223, 483 cases have been recorded with 2,984 deaths.

Meanwhile, the first case of Cholera was recorded in a village near Lagos, on 26 December 1970.

Since then, Cholera has remained a recurrent issue and a public health concern in the country. In 1991 alone, the country recorded 59, 478 Cholera cases with 7,654 deaths.

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