Pakistan: 2022 Cholera

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Source: https://www.dawn.com/news/1705458/hundreds-infected-with-cholera-in-bajaur

Hundreds infected with cholera in Bajaur
A Correspondent Published August 18, 2022 Updated about 8 hours ago

BAJAUR: A large number of people have been infected with cholera in the remote Barang tehsil of Bajaur district.

Residents, Rescue 1122 and health officials said on Wednesday that at least 287 people had become sick due to the water-borne disease in Asil Targaoo area.

Residents said that cholera broke out after people, mostly children, consumed rainwater.

“Scores of people, mostly children, in Asil Targaoo locality have been affected by cholera after they drank rainwater,” said a local, Ajaml Khan. The villagers said that most of the patients had been shifted to a local hospital for treatment, whose condition was out of danger.

In a statement, Rescue 1122 in Khar said that 150 patients were provided with first aid before being shifted to hospital. It said that a team of medical technicians was immediately dispatched to the affected area soon after its control room had received information about the outbreak of cholera from local residents...

 

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Source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/2374324/two-killed-in-upper-dir-cholera-outbreak

Two killed in Upper Dir cholera outbreak
The DHO said that the threat of a cholera outbreak is still very much there after the floods
AHMADUL HAQ September 02, 2022
UPPER DIR:

At least two people died in cholera outbreak in tehsil Kalkot, Dir Upper district on Thursday.

Talking to The Express Tribune, District Health Officer (DHO) Dr Fazal Basir said that Deputy Commissioner Akmal Khan Khattak had identified two deaths but there are no sign of a large scale outbreak of the waterborne disease.

Local residents, however, claimed that in the Jonkas village cholera had affected dozens of people.

“Cholera is spreading fast among the flood victims who are already faced with a lot of problems, including shortage of food,” they said, adding that a local Bakhat Zada took his son to hospital on foot due to lack of transport and money but the five-year-old died there.

Similarly, in the nearby village a woman died of cholera...

 

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Source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/2375890/cholera-outbreak-in-dukki-district-kills-two

Cholera outbreak in Dukki district kills two
1,500 admitted to District Headquarters Hospital
Syed Ali Shah September 10, 2022

QUETTA:

Waterborne diseases still haunt the inhabitants of Balochistan unnoticed who are already struggling to recover from the trauma of recent devastating floods.

On Monday two minor girls died of cholera in Dukki district as over 1,500 cholera patients were admitted to District Headquarters Hospital Dukki for treatment after an outbreak.

This pushed up the total death toll to six in the district in a week.

An official of the health department told The Express Tribune on the condition of anonymity that there was a large influx of patients. He said that most of the patients were discharged after treatment and only over two dozen were currently admitted to the hospital.

Health department has already declared an emergency to cope with cholera and other water-borne ailments among the flood victims after record flash floods wreaked havoc across the province recently...