The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control NCDC is to submit a cholera vaccination request to the International Coordinating Group ICG and the Global Task Force for Cholera Control GTFCC.
The Director-General NCDC, Chike Ihekweazu, told Newsmen in Abuja that the centre will also submit the request to the National Primary Health Care Development Agency.
Ihekweazu noted with concern that deaths arising from Cholera had risen to 1,768 as at August 15.
He said that 47,603 suspected cases had also been reported from 23 states since the beginning of 2021.
Ihekweazu said the centre will soon conduct training on cholera surveillance, hot spot mapping and development of state level preparedness and response plans ahead of subsequent cases.
The NCDC boss highlighted the lack of potable water in the rural communities, inadequate manpower for cholera outbreak as well as insufficient vaccine to go round the affected local government areas had been attributed as challenges being encountered in the cause of responding to the outbreak.
