The Kogi State Commissioner for Health, Dr Zakari Usman has said that the flood has sacked 514 communities while 400,000, persons have been displaced, including over 150,000 children, women.
Also, he said 17 deaths were recorded in the nine affected LGAs in the state during the peak of the flood.The Commissioner disclosed this in Lokoja on Monday while receiving some medical equipment from the World Health Organisation to assist with the flood in the state.
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