Sunday, October 5, 2025 - Zamfara State has recorded 179 deaths from 12,052 suspected cases of cholera, representing a 1.4 percent fatality rate, lower than the national average of 3.3 percent.
The Secretary to the State Government, Abubakar Mohammad
Nakwada, disclosed this during a meeting with the State Public Health Emergency
Operations Centre, PHEOC, led by the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Nafisa
Muhammad Maradun.
According to him, the figure reflects the state’s
intensified response to the outbreak across all 14 local government areas.
State Epidemiologist, Dr Ahmad Muhammad Gusau, said data
from the National Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, NCDC, showed that
Zamfara maintained a lower fatality rate than most states despite the high
number of suspected cases.
He attributed the improvement to effective case management
strategies, activation of Rapid Response Teams, active surveillance, and the
establishment of Cholera Treatment Centres and Oral Dehydration Points across
the state.
The Secretary to the State Government urged health workers
to sustain efforts to contain the disease, warning that each recorded case
represents a life at risk.
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