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Warrap health ministry breaks silence on malaria outbreak as deaths hit 69
KWAJOK (14 Aug.)
The death toll from malaria-typhoid in Warrap, South Sudan hit 69 Wednesday as the state ministry of health announced the outbreak is likely to worsen.
State Director of Preventive Medicine Agai Kerubino Akec told Radio Tamazuj he was appalled by the spread of disease in Tonj North County in particular and that he predicted the situation will deteriorate because rural health facilities cannot cope.
?Because there are various inaccessible areas due to poor roads connecting seven counties in the state, the figures of patients could be higher than what we have shown now,? he said.
Kerubino, who is also the state's coordinator of emergency operations, said there have been 137 total cases. He blamed the outbreak on Warrap's lack of healthcare services in remote payams, adding that local residents' use of traditional medicines for treatment and an acute shortage of mosquito nets exacerbates the problem...
Warrap health ministry breaks silence on malaria outbreak as deaths hit 69
KWAJOK (14 Aug.)
The death toll from malaria-typhoid in Warrap, South Sudan hit 69 Wednesday as the state ministry of health announced the outbreak is likely to worsen.
State Director of Preventive Medicine Agai Kerubino Akec told Radio Tamazuj he was appalled by the spread of disease in Tonj North County in particular and that he predicted the situation will deteriorate because rural health facilities cannot cope.
?Because there are various inaccessible areas due to poor roads connecting seven counties in the state, the figures of patients could be higher than what we have shown now,? he said.
Kerubino, who is also the state's coordinator of emergency operations, said there have been 137 total cases. He blamed the outbreak on Warrap's lack of healthcare services in remote payams, adding that local residents' use of traditional medicines for treatment and an acute shortage of mosquito nets exacerbates the problem...