The Lagos State government announced on Sunday, June 30, that 25 inmates at Kirikiri Medium Security Prison were suffering from severe gastroenteritis, confirmed to be due to cholera.

Health Commissioner Prof. Akin Abayomi provided an update on the cholera situation in the state, stating that immediate medical and environmental actions were taken and were successful.

The commissioner said,

“We were able to supply Kiriki­ri medium prison with intrave­nous fluids, infection prevention and other health consumables.

“Additionally, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has donated 10,000 doses of pharmaceuticals which have been delivered to the prison to support prison health facilities with prevention strat­egies for about 3,200 inmates if required. 
 
“Immediate water and sanita­tion issues have been corrected and there is ongoing inspections of other correctional facilities in the state,” 

Abayomi said.

“All of containers had no NAF­DAC accreditation numbers, in­dicating they are small cottage backyard informal production units. Identifying the precise lo­cation of manufacture has prov­en difficult and the directorate of environmental health is plan­ning to seal any such unregulated manufacture and make arrests of anybody involved with manufac­ture or distribution of beverages without NAFDAC numbers,”