Survival Analysis of Cholera Disease in Ilorin East Local Government Area of Kwara State, Nigeria.

This research was carried out to study the major causes of Cholera outbreak, determine whether symptoms of cholera is affected by the political wards of the local government area understudy, determine if the number of people that may likely contact cholera in future will increase or reduce and determine whether cholera is influenced by gender. Questionnaires were administered to 5,000 respondents of Ilorin East Local Government Area of kwara state in which about 4973 were retrieved from the respondents, which amount to 99.5%. Result from the descriptive statistics shows that eating contaminated food and lack of good social amenities are the major causes of cholera outbreak. The results of logistic regression analysis shows that those admitted to hospital after suspecting cholera symptoms is not influenced by the political ward of the respondents. In addition, the same analysis shows that number of patients that will be at risk in the nearest future will likely reduce while chi square analysis revealed that the rate at which people contact cholera is not dependent on gender. We thereby recommend that Health Planner should sensitize people more on the causes and prevention of cholera. Also, Drugs and other necessary amenities should be readily available before cholera outbreak in order to curtail any future outbreak of the disease