MSF warns from the epidemic “Quick expansion” as cholera kills 31 in Ethiopia Health news

The global health benefit says that the situation has worsened by arriving refugees from the southern Sudan, where thousands are infected.

At least 31 people died of “rapid spreading” outbreaks of cholera that broke more than 1,500 people in Ethiopia“Gambella region during the past month, according to doctors without borders, known for the French initials of IMF.

International Medical Charity She told Friday that the situation worsened by the arrival of people running from violence in neighboring Southern Sudan.

“Cholera spreads rapidly through Western Ethiopia and in parallel, a South Sudan in progress, jeopardizing thousands of life,” MSF said in the statement.

Several regions of Ethiopia, the second-mostly nation of Africa with about 120 million people, cholera outbreaks are important, and Amhara – its second largest region – among the most difficult hit.

Cholera is an acute intestinal infection spread through food and water contaminated with bacteria vibrio cholerae, often fecal origin.

Southern Sudan

In the district in the southern Sudan, located in Gornji Nil region, 1,300 cases of choler, according to MSF, has been reported in the last four weeks. Recently, the recent violence around the upper nile between the southern Sudanese government and the Armed Groups “deteriorates the epidemic.”

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

South Sudan, the youngest nation in the world and still affected by chronic instability and poverty, declared the cholera epidemic in October last year.

“We treat patients in Ethiopia, providing clean water and raising awareness of the disease. In the southern Sudan, we supply sleep care,” IMF reported.

“Urgent support for health care institutions, the provision of a security campaign for water and cholera vaccination is needed in the affected areas to stop the disease spread.”

Incredible disease

According to the World Health Organization, about 4,000 people died of “preventive and easy treatment” in 2023, which is 71 percent from the previous year, mainly in Africa.

The threat of spreading cholera in Ethiopia is further complicated by tension for cooking between Ethiopia and Eritrea, which observers said that it could result in armed conflict.

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