The Government of Adamawa State has alerted residents of likelihood of waterborne diseases in light of floods that recently plagued some parts of the State.
Adamawa Epidemiologist, Kadabiyu Jones, said at an event in Yola weekend that threat of cholera is real and the state government has raised its alert levels for outbreak of acute water diarrhea after flooding occured in Numan, Lamurde, Demsa and Madagali LGAs.
Many cases of acute water diarrhea may come due to the devastation caused by flood waters,” he said.
Speaking as representative of the state Commissioner of Health Felix Tangwami on an ocassion in Yola when a nongovernmental organisation, Grassroot Life Saving Outreach (LESGO), donated drugs and other life-saving medical necessities to IDPs and flood victims in the state, the health official added that there is the urgent need for medical supplies to vulnerable citizens.
He said interventions by LESGO had helped to provide critically needed medical supplies to contain health emergencies resulting from flooding and other causes.
The flag-off ceremony of the distribution of the items by LESGO was witnessed by officials from World Health Organisation (WHO), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the state ministries of Health and of Water Resources.
The LESGO Programme Manager, James Siggi, said while initial multi-million naira essential drugs and other medical supplies and consumables were procured for internally displaced persons (IDPs) affected by Boko Haram insurgency, due to the impact of recent floods in the indicated LGAs, the organisation had also deemed it fit to set aside some medical items for flood victims.