NCDC Highlights Improper Sanitation and Resource Scarcity as Key Factors in Nigeria’s Cholera Outbreak.

The recent cholera outbreak in Nigeria has been attributed to inadequate sanitation and resource scarcity, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).

In an appearance on a Channels Television programme on Saturday, June 15, the agency's director general, Jide Idris, spoke about the disease outbreak that has already taken 15 lives in Lagos. He urged governments to take preventative measures against the disease outbreak, including providing access to clean water and toilets.

He uttered; “If you go back to this cholera case, to me, it’s a problem of poor sanitation, both personal and environmental; it’s a problem of lack of access to water. The easiest way for good personal hygiene is hand-washing, especially after using the toilet, and before you cook your food. 

“But in a situation where you tell people to do hand-washing and there’s no access to water, it’s a problem. So, I think everybody, including the Federal Government, the state government, different agencies, local governments, even the people themselves, the community, have to come around.”