According to National Mirror, following the reported outbreak of an alleged cholera epidemic in two local government areas of Ogun State, private and public hospitals across the Abeokuta metropolis have witnessed an increase in the number of patients on admission for the decease. This is just as the state government confirmed the spread of the disease to Odeda and Owode Obafemi local government areas in addition to the already identified Abeokuta North and South local government areas. Death toll in what the state government described as “unhygienic condition of the affected areas” has also continued to rise, with causalities cutting across age and gender. Ogun State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Olaokun Soyinka confirmed that 104 cases were already listed in what he described as “gastroenteritis” disease in Abeokuta South, especially in Ijaye and Adedotun in Abeokuta North local governments, asserting that only three deaths have been recorded in the epidemic, which he stressed was not related to cholera.
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