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Somalia-Diarrhoea-Outbreak
Outbreak of acute diarrhoeal hits Somali capital
APA-Mogadishu(Somalia) Nearly 40 Somali children under the age of five years have been have been admitted to the Banadir hospital in Mogadishu for the past 24 hours because of acute watery-diarrhoea outbreak, doctors revealed here on Sunday.
Doctor Mohamed Isse Abdi of the Mother and infant care told reporters in Mogadishu that that the hospital has received 37 children since early Saturday.
He said that because of the very hot atmosphere and children drinking unclean water, the water related disease is spreading in more areas particularly in the outskirts of the capital, Mogadishu where more than 1.5 million displaced people live.
?No organization is assisting the hospital which is now running out of medicine, so we are calling on International healthy agencies like WHO, MSF or Somali business communities to help the hospital,? the doctor appealed.
?The hospital is holding more than its capacity and ailing children are being brought here minute by minute and without an emergency medical assistance I am afraid that more deaths will occur in less than 12 hours from now,? the doctor warned.
Most of the international aid agencies which were very active in Somalia have been banned from operating in the country by Al shabab militants...
Somalia-Diarrhoea-Outbreak
Outbreak of acute diarrhoeal hits Somali capital
APA-Mogadishu(Somalia) Nearly 40 Somali children under the age of five years have been have been admitted to the Banadir hospital in Mogadishu for the past 24 hours because of acute watery-diarrhoea outbreak, doctors revealed here on Sunday.
Doctor Mohamed Isse Abdi of the Mother and infant care told reporters in Mogadishu that that the hospital has received 37 children since early Saturday.
He said that because of the very hot atmosphere and children drinking unclean water, the water related disease is spreading in more areas particularly in the outskirts of the capital, Mogadishu where more than 1.5 million displaced people live.
?No organization is assisting the hospital which is now running out of medicine, so we are calling on International healthy agencies like WHO, MSF or Somali business communities to help the hospital,? the doctor appealed.
?The hospital is holding more than its capacity and ailing children are being brought here minute by minute and without an emergency medical assistance I am afraid that more deaths will occur in less than 12 hours from now,? the doctor warned.
Most of the international aid agencies which were very active in Somalia have been banned from operating in the country by Al shabab militants...