The Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF), an international health volunteer group, has revealed the statistics of infected and treated patients of Cholera in northeast Bauchi and Yobe states to be 4, 207 persons.

MSF, in a statement from its Maiduguri office“A total of 4,207 patients have been treated in MAC’s structures between March 19 and May 6.”  It said the state’s health personnel supported by its teams suppliHealthed chlorinated water to average of 160 household per day in the two areas.

“We are still potentially in the early phases of the outbreak, given this region is regularly affected by serious and prolonged cholera epidemics,” MSF project coordinator, Miriam Harry said in the statement issued in Maiduguri by the Field Communication Officer, Borno Office, Musa Yahaya.

He explained that the outbreak is now under control with cases drastically reduced after launching an oral cholera vaccination (OCV) campaign which targets 125, 000 people. He said MSF with local health authorities aim to vaccinate over 600, 000 people in high risk areas.

“We launched a vaccination campaign on May 9, and within the first two days, MSF covered 269,107 people with a first dose of the oral vaccine,” he said.

More than 10,800 people were infected by Cholera in Bauchi in 2010 while over 16, 000 people were affected in 2014.