Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In re: News item appearing in The Hindu dated 21.12.2023 titled “6 dead, 1000 infected in suspected cholera outbreak in Rourkela dated 22/12/2023. The original application is registered in suo-moto exercise of power on the basis of the news item …
Nairobi — Health Cabinet Secretary Cleopa Mailu is asking for maintenance of a high standard of cleanliness revealing that 92 people have so far been infected by the deadly cholera bacteria in the latest outbreak. Mailu assured that the Ministry was working hard to contain the pandemic and stated that …
Murnei / Zalingei / Nierteti — New cases of cholera are being reported daily across Darfur, but medics in Nierteti are cautiously optimistic with a drop in cases this week. In addition to the spread of malaria following heavy rains, six people died of cholera and 19 new infection cases …
LAGOS – Fourteen people have died of cholera in northeast Nigeria, with most of the victims living in a camp for people displaced by Boko Haram violence, the health ministry said Saturday. "Up to September 1, 14 deaths have been reported," the health ministry said in a statement, adding that …
Darfur / El Gezira / Sennar / Northern State — At least ten Darfuris died of cholera last week. A joint UN-Sudanese mission visited Central Darfur "to report on gaps and challenges in the Acute Watery Diarrhoea response activities". New cases have been recorded south of Khartoum, in eastern Sudan, …
It started around 6 p.m. one evening, shortly after supper. Regina Lotem had been warned about it for weeks and even though she tried to prevent it, she knew it might happen. Her five-year-old son Juma had been vomiting and had severe diarrhoea for several hours. If not treated properly, …
Worsened by Poor Water Infrastructure New DRC Cholera Outbreak Claims Mostly Children KANYARUCHINYA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - In the absence of rain, a cholera outbreak has already claimed 17 lives here. The village of Kanyaruchinya lies 10 kilometers (6 miles) north of Goma, the capital of DRC's North Kivu …
Nyala / El Mahas — Cholera continues to spread in South Darfur and Northern State. The leadership of the Darfur Displaced and Refugees Association has urged the Sudanese authorities to officially declare a cholera epidemic in the country. The National Epidemiological Corporation reported in early July that nearly 24,000 Sudanese …
Halfa / Dalgo — Cholera has extended to the north of Sudan and reached Abri in Halfa locality, where four cases were reported on Monday. A hospital recorded more infected cases coming from the gold mines in Northern State. The patients are treated in the isolation ward placed outside of …
More than a million children in Yemen are at high risk of dying from cholera, says Save the Children. The charity warns that the children are severely malnourished, and living in some of the areas of the country worst hit by the disease. The number of people infected with the …
Eastern Sudan / El Gezira — Six people died of cholera in Halfa El Jadeeda in Kassala state last week. Four new cases were recorded. The isolation unit at the Singa Hospital in Sennar admitted 42 new cases on Thursday and Friday. Tamboul in El Gezira is witnessing a decrease …
The Chinese government has donated up to $ 1.8 million to South Sudan’s ministry of health to fight cholera and malaria in the country. The donation was handed over by the Chinese embassy in South Sudan to government officials in the war-torn nation on Saturday. During the occasion, the South …
Kabkabiya / El Tadamon / Sennar — The number of new cholera infections continues to rise in Darfur, while the disease is seeing resurgence in eastern Sudan, where it showed signs of decrease over the past weeks. Five people died of cholera in Kabkabiya in North Darfur on Monday and …
A cholera outbreak in the Kenyan capital has killed four people since May and the government has shut down a three-star hotel and a popular restaurant there to control its spread, the health minister said on Wednesday. At least 79 people with confirmed cases of cholera were being treated in …
NAIROBI (Xinhua) -- Kenyan authorities on Saturday confirmed that 33 cases of suspected cholera have been reported in the past two days from a trade forum which ended in Nairobi on Wednesday. Nairobi County Government Health Executive, Bernard Muia said 33 patients are admitted in various hospitals in Nairobi and …
Sennar / Shendi / Kalma — On Friday, the number of cholera deaths in El Dindir in eastern Sudan's Sennar rose to 34. The afflicted locality is short of rehydration solutions and medical staff. In Sinja, medics embarked on a strike. A medical source reported from El Dindir that 13 …
Nairobi — Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero has put a ban on all unlicensed water tankers distributing water in the city. The move follows a suspected cholera outbreak that left dozens of people admitted to various hospitals including government officials. Kidero has also asked Nairobi residents to be vigilant on what …
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has raised red alert for acute outbreaks of cholera and hepatitis E in Nigeria. The WHO blamed the cholera outbreaks on lack of access to clean drinking water and poor hygiene conditions, and the hepatitis E epidemic on the ongoing humanitarian crisis in north-eastern Nigeria. …
Delling / Kadugli / Ed Daein — Four people died of cholera in Delling in South Kordofan, including a university student. Three other students also contracted cholera. Meanwhile the university of Kadugli refuses to postpone the start of the new year. A young woman who studies at the University of …
A cholera outbreak in Yemen, which has claimed 1,400 lives in two months, shows tentative signs of slowing as fatality rates drop by half, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday, July 4, AFP reports. Nearly 219,000 suspected cases have been registered since April 27 and more than 1,400 people …
Nyala / Shearia / Tendelti — The state Ministry of Health placed medical tents to combat the spread of cholera in the overcrowded Kalma camp for displaced people in South Darfur. Five people died of 'acute watery diarrhoea', as the deadly disease is called by the Sudanese authorities, in the …
