The director of the health office in Shabwa Governorate, Ali Nasser Al-Dheeb, revealed that there is an outbreak of cholera in the camps of African migrants coming to Yemen.

Al-Dheeb explained in press statements that 48 cases of the disease had been recorded, and among these cases, three cases suffered from kidney failure.

Al-Dhib pointed out that cholera is widespread in two migrant camps in the city of Ataq, the capital of Shabwa Governorate, and according to Al-Dhib, each camp includes 250 to 300 migrants.

Al-Dheeb confirmed that the Health Office during the past few days approved assigning an emergency committee to contain and control the epidemic and take precautionary measures.

He added that the committee conducts daily field visits to the migrant camps to follow up and monitor any new suspected cases, in addition to carrying out chlorination operations for wells and water tanks in the governorate center.

In the same context, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned of an increase in the spread of cholera cases in Shabwa Governorate, as it said in a report that it had observed a noticeable increase in the number of suspected cholera cases arriving at Ataq Maternity and Childhood Hospital in Shabwa.

The organization said in its report that last Thursday it received reports of 40 suspected cases, and after conducting rapid confirmatory tests, 26 of them were confirmed as cholera.

Doctors Without Borders stressed the need to take urgent and rapid proactive measures to stop the expansion of #cholera cases, given that it is a highly contagious disease that affects both children and adults, and can lead to serious symptoms such as acute watery diarrhea, and if left untreated it can lead to To death within hours.

Source: Viewer Net