{"id":182958,"date":"2024-10-21T00:49:10","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T22:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-cholera-niger-state-confirms16-deaths165-cases\/"},"modified":"2024-10-21T00:49:10","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T22:49:10","slug":"nigeria-cholera-niger-state-confirms16-deaths165-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-cholera-niger-state-confirms16-deaths165-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Cholera &#8211; Niger State Confirms16 Deaths,165 Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">According to the commissioner, 145 patients have been treated and discharged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nigerstate.gov.ng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Niger State Government<\/a><\/strong> has confirmed 16 deaths from 165 cases of cholera recorded in the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The state&#8217;s Commissioner for Primary Healthcare, Dangana Ibrahim, confirmed the outbreak of the disease at a meeting of the State Task Force Committee on Primary Healthcare and Immunisation, chaired by Deputy Governor Yakubu Garba, in Minna.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">According to the commissioner, 145 patients have been treated and discharged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">&#8220;To&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410180539.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the commissioner, 145 patients have been treated and discharged. The Niger State Government has confirmed 16 deaths from 165 cases of cholera recorded in the state. The state&#8217;s Commissioner for Primary Healthcare, Dangana Ibrahim, confirmed the outbreak of the disease at a meeting of the State Task Force Committee on Primary Healthcare and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":182959,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn09.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00650878:6bff2aa2521c448d1070e29b6bbf69d4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,10498,879,49799,49800,257,404,4687,393,254,6017],"class_list":["post-182958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cases","tag-cholera","tag-confirms16","tag-deaths165","tag-news","tag-niger","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-state"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn09.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00650878:6bff2aa2521c448d1070e29b6bbf69d4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}