No fewer than eight of 25 cases of cholera recorded in Anambra in January 2015 have died, the state Commissioner for Health, Dr Joe Akabuike, has said.
Akabuike said this in Awka on Tuesday while receiving drugs and hospital equipment donated by a pharmaceutical company based in Lagos.
He said that the cholera outbreak recorded in Innoma Community in Anambra West Local Government Area of the state was already under control.

The commissioner said that a team of doctors and nurses were immediately deployed to the area as soon as the outbreak was reported.
``We discovered that it was not a full blown cholera but gastroenteritis common in children under five years.
Akabuike said the government had also received drugs and hospital equipment worth about 2 billion dollars from many donor agencies and indigenes of the state since the inception of the present administration.

He commended the donors for the gesture and pledged to use the items judiciously for the wellbeing of the people.