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2009-09-22 10:12:35
Somalia-diarrhea-deaths
Diarrhea outbreak kills 27 in Somali town
APA-Mogadishu (Somalia) At least 27 people, mostly children, have died from watery-diarrhea in the city of Warsheek,about 90 kilometers east of Mogadishu in the past 24 hours, according to a health official in the city.
Abiikar Shikhey, the director of the city?s sole hospital, told reporters on Tuesday that the hospital has been closed due to lack of medicines and as the result is that nine people died on Tuesday morning.
"Six of them were children while the three others were old women" he told reporters, adding that the situation is desperate as the hospital has run out of medical supplies.
"So we are calling on the international aid organizations and the Somali people to launch a life-saving campaign, because people are dying," he said.
He said the diseases killing people are tuberculosis, watery-diarrhea and measles.
"Patients are being brought to the hospital minute by minute and we have nothing for them, because there is no medicine here. People are dying in front of us and we cannot save them," he said.
2009-09-22 10:12:35
Somalia-diarrhea-deaths
Diarrhea outbreak kills 27 in Somali town
APA-Mogadishu (Somalia) At least 27 people, mostly children, have died from watery-diarrhea in the city of Warsheek,about 90 kilometers east of Mogadishu in the past 24 hours, according to a health official in the city.
Abiikar Shikhey, the director of the city?s sole hospital, told reporters on Tuesday that the hospital has been closed due to lack of medicines and as the result is that nine people died on Tuesday morning.
"Six of them were children while the three others were old women" he told reporters, adding that the situation is desperate as the hospital has run out of medical supplies.
"So we are calling on the international aid organizations and the Somali people to launch a life-saving campaign, because people are dying," he said.
He said the diseases killing people are tuberculosis, watery-diarrhea and measles.
"Patients are being brought to the hospital minute by minute and we have nothing for them, because there is no medicine here. People are dying in front of us and we cannot save them," he said.