cholera in ogun

The attention of the Ogun State Government has been drawn to some newspaper publications listing Ogun State among 10 other states that have recently recorded cholera outbreak.

The State Government wishes to state that there was no iota of truth in this reports credited to he Chief Epidemiologist in the Federal Ministry f Health, Dr. Henry Akpan.

I wish to bring t the attention of he public that he Federal Chief Epidemiologist, probably mixed he issue of food poisoning reported in the part of the state which was brought to the attention of the Federal Ministry of Health, where 9 members of the same family were affected due to pesticide contamination of the food container. However no death was recorded.

“Early this month a case of food poison involving nine members of the same family occurred and there was no death recorded, and there was no time Ogun State recorded any case of cholera this year.

The case of food poison was caused by the contamination of the food container with pesticide”

“I wish to emphasis that immediately the issue of food poison came to the notice of the Sate Government, appropriate agencies took up the issue and had brought it under control.”

The State Government wishes to assure the members of the public that the issue of health of the people is of paramount interest to the present administration. Government however wishes to appeal to all citizens to maintain clean environments so as to avoid any issue of cholera outbreak.