DRC - ​South Kivu: Diarrheal disease kills seven people in Luntukulu

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South Kivu: Diarrheal disease kills seven people in Luntukulu

Kinshasa12-05-2018

Sante - A medical team is dispatched to Luntukulu in Walungu territory to verify the fact and give details of the origin of the diarrheal disease that killed seven people.

Seven people were killed by a cholera-like illness, probably from food, in the locality of Luntukulu in Walungu territory, said communication officer at the provincial health division in South Kivu, Claude Bahizire. , during a meeting Monday with the press.

According to the source, a medical team is dispatched to Luntukulu to verify the fact and give details of the origin of this pathology. Some people are moving to other healthy localities in the territories of Mwenga and Walungu.

The humanitarian organizations Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) are helping the population to take adequate care, including medicines and the installation of standpipes.

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https://www.digitalcongo.net/article/5af6d98d1175650004da04f0

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The diarrheal disease known by the population of Luntukulu is not cholera

- May 26, 2018

Bukavu, May 26, 2018 (ACP) .- The diarrheal disease known by the population of Luntukulu, in the territory of Walungu, is not cholera as allegedly by the inhabitants of this entity of Walungu territory, declared Thursday Dr. Claude Bahizire of the communication department at the provincial division of health.

According to Dr. Bahizire, after taking the samples and sending them for analysis to the competent medical services in Kinshasa with the help of the international organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF), the greenish diarrhea known by the patients would come from toxic foods. Already more than 150 cases have already been identified and treated. ACP / GSO / JGD

http://acpcongo.com/acp/maladie-diarrheique-connue-population-de-luntukulu-nest-cholera/