Cholera can wreck havoc in a relatively short period of time if the outbreak is not quickly contained. While Haiti may have a legitimate reason to suffer the inevitable fecal oral infections brought about by unsanitary conditions in the refugee camps, Nigeria simply has no excuse at this day in age.
By mobilizing its resources to help during the last big band of the Haiti destructive earthquake, ANPA demonstrated its capacity to intervene in similar disasters in Nigeria, under the appropriate circumstances.
I was quite encouraged to read about the recent efforts by the Nigerian Global Diaspora Forum and the Nigerian Pharmacists Association of Tampa, Florida to assist the cholera victims.
The last line in the article in The Guardian reads:
ReplyDelete"The statement disclosed that the United States-based Nigerian Pharmacists Association of Tampa, Florida had made the donation of antibiotics, which are part of the relief medications package possible."
This is very encouraging. ANPA should be able to mobilize a small "pilot team" that can be deployed to any region in the world with a medical crisis to give a quick assessment of the problem and how ANPA can participate in relief work.
Nigeria is luck to have you guys who spend so much of your time trying to make our country better. We sincerely welcome any thing you can do for us from your own pockets but the truth is that kwudi nyafu nyafu for dis country. The money wey dem go take buy votes for pdp candidate can give many of our cities clean drinking water. Na God go save us. God bless una.
ReplyDeleteIt is an infection of the small intestine caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. The main symptoms are profuse watery diarrhea and vomiting.
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