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Tshopo: unknown disease kills 34 people in Bangbo
Posted on Sat, 08/04/2017 - 19:12 | Modified on Sat, 08/04/2017 - 19:12
Unknown disease Banalia Bangbo Health News Province Orientale
Thirty-four people died, between 7 and 8 April, of an unidentified disease reported in the Bangbo group in the territory of Banalia (Tshopo).
Before they died, they had symptoms of diarrhea and vomiting.
According to the vice-president of civil society lively force of Banalia, Didier Mahindo, the medical staff on the ground is overwhelmed:
"In Bangbo, there is a diarrhea that has attacked the population. Since yesterday until 10 am, there are already about 30 dead. The nurse of the place is overwhelmed. The dead are exposed to the outside. We are sending a cry of alarm to the authorities to help us. "
The head of the provincial division of health of the Tshopo, Dr. Francis Baelongandi, claims to have been seized of this situation by his collaborators of Banalia.
"We, too, have just heard a rumor of 34 deaths due to diarrhea, vomiting and abdominal colic. Arrangements are made at the health zone level for a team to go down to investigate, "he said.
The same source adds that the population of this region does not have latrines and would use the water of the river Nadropia as drinking water and place of ease.
Tshopo: unknown disease kills 34 people in Bangbo
Posted on Sat, 08/04/2017 - 19:12 | Modified on Sat, 08/04/2017 - 19:12
Unknown disease Banalia Bangbo Health News Province Orientale
Thirty-four people died, between 7 and 8 April, of an unidentified disease reported in the Bangbo group in the territory of Banalia (Tshopo).
Before they died, they had symptoms of diarrhea and vomiting.
According to the vice-president of civil society lively force of Banalia, Didier Mahindo, the medical staff on the ground is overwhelmed:
"In Bangbo, there is a diarrhea that has attacked the population. Since yesterday until 10 am, there are already about 30 dead. The nurse of the place is overwhelmed. The dead are exposed to the outside. We are sending a cry of alarm to the authorities to help us. "
The head of the provincial division of health of the Tshopo, Dr. Francis Baelongandi, claims to have been seized of this situation by his collaborators of Banalia.
"We, too, have just heard a rumor of 34 deaths due to diarrhea, vomiting and abdominal colic. Arrangements are made at the health zone level for a team to go down to investigate, "he said.
The same source adds that the population of this region does not have latrines and would use the water of the river Nadropia as drinking water and place of ease.
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