Doctors Without Borders Warning against “rapid spread” outbreaks, killing cholera 31 in Ethiopia Health news

The World Medical Charitable Society says that the situation worsened with the arrival of refugees from southern Sudan, where thousands are injured.

At least 31 people died due to the “rapid spread” outbreak in cholera, which fell ill more than 1500 people EthiopiaThe Gampella region over the past month, according to the doctors without borders, is known for its first letters of doctors without borders.

The International Medical Charitable Society said on Friday that the situation worsened with the arrival of people who flee violence in the adjacent South Sudan.

He said in a statement, “Cholera is spreading quickly throughout West Ethiopia and likewise in parallel, the outbreak of South Sudan continues, and it endangers thousands of lives,” he said in a statement.

Many regions of Ethiopia, the second most populated nation in Africa with about 120 million people, fights Chourara’s outbreak, with Amhara-the second largest region-among the most difficult blow.

Cholera is an acute intestinal infection that spreads through food and water contaminated with Vibrio Cholerae bacteria, often of stool origin.

South Sudan

In Aquopo Province in South Sudan, located in the Supreme Nile region, 1300 cases of cholera have been reported in the past four weeks, according to MSF. She said that the recent violence over the Alawite Nile between the Sudanese government and armed groups “increases the fascism increases.”

“Thousands are displaced, the loss of access to health care, safe water, and sanitation,” said MSF.

South Sudan, the smallest country in the world and still strikes chronic instability and poverty, announced the cholera epidemic in October last year.

“In Ethiopia, we deal with patients, provide clean water, and raise awareness of the disease. In southern Sudan, we offer life rescue care.”

“Urgent support for health facilities is needed, and a campaign to vaccinate safe water and cholera in affected areas to stop the spread of the disease.”

Preventive disease

According to the World Health Organization, about 4000 people died of “preventive and easily treated disease” in 2023, an increase of 71 percent from the previous year, Mostly in Africa.

The threat of cholera in Ethiopia increases the complexity of the tension of fermentation between Ethiopia and Eritrea, which observers may lead to an armed conflict.

Warnings of new instability in the Tigray region in northern Ethiopia, where a Civil war From 2020-2022 hundreds of thousands of people were killed.