1. The arrests came the day before the doctors, who belong to the Ogoni Medical Foundation, were to begin seeing cholera patients at no cost. 2. The cholera patients have been placed in a makeshift isolation ward where they are rehydrated intravenously. 3. The outbreak is centered in the northern city of Kano, where cholera patients filled the wards at the Infectious Diseases Hospital. 4. The outbreak is centered in the northern city of Kano, where cholera patients fill the wards at the Infectious Diseases Hospital and spill outside. 5. A German aid body reported Monday the first cholera patients who received treatment in the Goma area last week. 6. Dozens of cholera patients were hospitalized in Chikkar and Hattian Bala. 7. The only remaining expatriate surgeon in Goma, Jo Lusi, last week treated the first cholera patients in the Virunga Hospital, CBM said. 8. Tibi said health officials were providing people linked with the cholera patients with preventive medication, and testing food and market produce. 9. Tibi said health officials were providing people close to the cholera patients with preventive medication, and testing food and market produce. 10. Local people have set up an isolation camp for cholera patients and ICRC engineers are supplying water to the camp. |