How contaminated streams, open defecation, lack of health centres fuel Abuja communities’ cholera outbreak

As cholera spreads across the country, residents of some communities in the Abuja Municipal Council battling a raging cholera outbreak say that lack of access to potable water and inadequate health infrastructure remain a major hindrance to curbing the disease. LARA ADEJORO, who visited the communities, reports: Sixteen-year-old Salvation Ibrahim woke up on July 24,…