Sudan‘s Health Minister Haitham Mohamed Ibrahim, has declared a cholera epidemic after 22 deaths were reported. The situation has become dire in the northeast African nation, where the population is suffering from the fallout of catastrophic floods and a 16-month conflict.
“We are declaring a cholera epidemic because of the weather conditions and because drinking water has been contaminated,” Sudan’s Health Minister Haitham Ibrahim said in a video released on Saturday.
He said the decision was taken in conjunction with authorities in the eastern state of Kassala, United Nations agencies, and experts after the “discovery by the public health laboratory of the cholera virus”.
Ibrahim said that at least 22 people have died from the disease and that at least 354 confirmed cases of cholera had been detected across the county.
He didn’t give a time frame for the deaths or the tally since the start of the year.
The World Health Organization, however, said that 78 deaths were recorded from cholera this year in Sudan as of 28 July.
The disease also affected more than 2,400 others between 1 January and 28 July, it said.
Source: RFI
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