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A cholera outbeak at the Governmemt Girls’ Secondary School, Kawo, Kaduna state, has led to the death of one student while 55 others have been hospitalised.

Jafaru Sani, commissioner of education in the state, confirmed the development to reporters, on Monday, when he visited the school to access the situation.

The commissioner said the situation had been brought under control with 15 pupils discharged from the hospital.

”The situation is under control. When we hear about the report, I called the commissioner for health and human service who immediately ordered the authority of Kaduna North local government to deploy health workers to the school immediately,” he said.

”The ministry of health has also made provision for a make shift control centre within the school.”

Ibrahin Suleiman, deputy director, disease control centre in the ministry of health, said the students were admitted to the hospital due to diarrhea and vomit.

”We are yet to confirm to confirm the real cause of the problem, but there are a lot of contamination around the water source the students are using which may be a serious contributory factor,” Suleiman said.

”Apart from these children on admission, we are also investigating another 89 cases apart from diarrhea and vomiting.”