Sudan cholera outbreak kills 40 in a week as health centres overwhelmed | Global development
According to Medical Charity Médecins Sans Frontières, the “worst cholera epidemic for years” killed at least 40 people in Sudan last week.
MSF, overwhelmed medical centers, because the country’s two -year civil war helps to spread the disease, resorting to treating patients in the beds.
North Darfur Province, Tawila, the MSF Project Coordinator Sylvain Penicaud, said that the families in refugee camps, the main cause of cholera, said there was no choice but to drink dirty water.
“Only two weeks ago, a body was found in a well in one of the camps. It was removed, but within two days, people were forced to drink from the same water again,” he said.
Sudan’s cholera epidemic was first confirmed by the Ministry of Health a year agoand more than then 99,700 suspicious cases And more than 2,470 related death.
Public health leaders, the disease escapes from fighting and the water pollute and crushing sewage systems worsened with heavy rains, he said.
Africa, African Union Public Health Agency, Disease Control and Prevention Centers, has repeatedly increased concerns about the spread of cholera to the continent. As of May, it made up 60% of cholera cases And 93.5% of the worldwide deaths worldwide. States such as the Democratic Republic of Congo and the South Sudan and Sudan are among the worst affected states.
MSF, Tawila, the Ministry of Health, said that more than 2,300 cholera patients treated last month. The 130 -bed treatment center of the hospital had to host 400 patients in the first week of August.
Approximately 380,000 people have arrived in small town since April According to the UN Records, they are escaping from fighting in the city of El Pasher and Zamzam.
While the World Health Organization says that people need in emergencies At least 7.5 liters of water One day for drinking, cooking and hygiene, people in Tawila should survive an average of three.
MSF, Darfur’s water scarcity “dishes and food washing makes it impossible to follow basic hygiene measures,” he said.
He said that cholera treatment centers in other towns and regions were “overwhelmed ..
Samia Daab, who lives in the Otash displacement camp in Nyala, South Darfur, said, “Health centers are full,” he said. “There are water in some regions, some have kiosks far away [away] Or empty. We are not sure whether water is salty and safe. “
MSF’s Sudanese mission chairman Orkinos Türkmen said that the situation is “beyond urgent, and that it has spread to more than one region beyond Darfur states and beyond the displacement camps right now”.
16 deaths and 288 cases in neighboring chad Reported in the second week of August.
Türkmen called for an international response to start the cholera vaccination campaigns that match the urgency of this catastrophic situation in the affected regions, and in the affected regions, Türkmen called on Türkmen, Türkmen called an international response ”.
