As Nigeria faces a critical sanitation challenge with the cholera outbreak, health experts have called for a multi-pronged approach, by prioritising sanitation and enforcing regulations against open defecation.
The experts who say that the persistence of open defecation is jeopardizing the nation’s commitment to ending it by 2025, harped on promoting behaviour change for the country to get back on track to meet its sanitation targets and ultimately save lives.
As of June 24, 2024, the National Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, NCDC, reported 1,528 suspected cases of cholera and 53 deaths across 31 states and 107 LGAs in Nigeria since the beginning of the year. The case fatality rate is 3.5 percent. The NCDC has also placed Nigeria on high risk for increased cholera transmission and impact due to the rainy season.
According to a public health expert, Dr Casmier Ifeanyi, Nigeria has continued to pay lip service to water, sanitation, and hygiene .
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