Sudan (the) Sudan Health Highlights - Week 1, 1 - 7 January 2012
Report? World Health Organization
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15 cases with haemorrhagic manifestations were reported from Abu Talha and Abu Dahan villages in West Kassala locality in East Sudan. WHO and SMoH jointly conducted verifications mission to affected locality, surveillance system alerted, 5 samples were collected and sent to national public health laboratory in Khartoum for further investigation. No deaths were reported.
Measles cases were also reported from Nhre Atbra and New Halfa localities in Kassala State. During the week, Nhre Atbara locality reported 46 cases while Rural Halfa locality reported 18 cases bringing the total number of
measles cases (since start outbreak) to 246 and 11 deaths, with case fatality rate of 4.5%.
WHO supported strengthening case management capabilities of health staff with arranged training sessions on case definition and case management for 60 health staff (doctors, nurses and medical assistants). In addition,
essential drugs for management centers in both localities were also provided.
In Darfur, acute respiratory infections (ARI), bloody diarrhoea (BD), clinical malaria (Mal), were the leading causes of morbidity during the last week of 2011.
Twelve (12) suspected cases of acute jaundice syndrome (AJS) were reported from Darfur with 10 cases from South Darfur, 02 cases from West Darfur compared to seventeen (17) cases reported during the previous
week. One (1) case of suspected Measles was also reported during the week from Saraf Omra in North Darfur.
No case of suspected measles was reported from South Darfur. In Darfur, nine (09) deaths were reported from North and West Darfur and were attributed to ARI, MAL and other causes (6 fatalities).
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Report? World Health Organization
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15 cases with haemorrhagic manifestations were reported from Abu Talha and Abu Dahan villages in West Kassala locality in East Sudan. WHO and SMoH jointly conducted verifications mission to affected locality, surveillance system alerted, 5 samples were collected and sent to national public health laboratory in Khartoum for further investigation. No deaths were reported.
Measles cases were also reported from Nhre Atbra and New Halfa localities in Kassala State. During the week, Nhre Atbara locality reported 46 cases while Rural Halfa locality reported 18 cases bringing the total number of
measles cases (since start outbreak) to 246 and 11 deaths, with case fatality rate of 4.5%.
WHO supported strengthening case management capabilities of health staff with arranged training sessions on case definition and case management for 60 health staff (doctors, nurses and medical assistants). In addition,
essential drugs for management centers in both localities were also provided.
In Darfur, acute respiratory infections (ARI), bloody diarrhoea (BD), clinical malaria (Mal), were the leading causes of morbidity during the last week of 2011.
Twelve (12) suspected cases of acute jaundice syndrome (AJS) were reported from Darfur with 10 cases from South Darfur, 02 cases from West Darfur compared to seventeen (17) cases reported during the previous
week. One (1) case of suspected Measles was also reported during the week from Saraf Omra in North Darfur.
No case of suspected measles was reported from South Darfur. In Darfur, nine (09) deaths were reported from North and West Darfur and were attributed to ARI, MAL and other causes (6 fatalities).
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