Mary Wilson
Well-known member
Juba, South Sudan, December 23, 2024 — Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) urgently calls on local authorities and national and international humanitarian organizations to immediately scale up the response to the rapidly escalating cholera outbreak across South Sudan. ...
“What we are witnessing is not just a cholera outbreak—it is the result of systemic neglect,” says Mamman Mustapha, MSF head of mission in South Sudan. “The camps are overwhelmed with mountains of uncollected waste, latrines are broken and overflowing which has left people with no choice but to defecate out in the open, and raw sewage is running between people’s tents and food kiosks. As a result, drinking water has become contaminated, and patients are arriving at our cholera treatment centers in critical condition. Many people are at death’s door. Without immediate action to address the dire conditions that people are living in, we expect cholera cases to skyrocket in the coming days and weeks.” ...
... rapid spread of the disease, with 4,007 cases reported in Rubkona County as of December 15, since the outbreak was declared on October 28. ...
“In just four weeks, MSF teams in Bentiu have treated over 1,210 cholera patients, many of whom arrived in critical condition due to severe dehydration,” says Albert Stern, MSF emergency response coordinator in South Sudan. “Tragically, 92 lives have been lost in Unity State.” ...
https://www.doctorswithoutborders.o...rgent-action-cholera-outbreak-rapidly-spreads
“What we are witnessing is not just a cholera outbreak—it is the result of systemic neglect,” says Mamman Mustapha, MSF head of mission in South Sudan. “The camps are overwhelmed with mountains of uncollected waste, latrines are broken and overflowing which has left people with no choice but to defecate out in the open, and raw sewage is running between people’s tents and food kiosks. As a result, drinking water has become contaminated, and patients are arriving at our cholera treatment centers in critical condition. Many people are at death’s door. Without immediate action to address the dire conditions that people are living in, we expect cholera cases to skyrocket in the coming days and weeks.” ...
... rapid spread of the disease, with 4,007 cases reported in Rubkona County as of December 15, since the outbreak was declared on October 28. ...
“In just four weeks, MSF teams in Bentiu have treated over 1,210 cholera patients, many of whom arrived in critical condition due to severe dehydration,” says Albert Stern, MSF emergency response coordinator in South Sudan. “Tragically, 92 lives have been lost in Unity State.” ...
https://www.doctorswithoutborders.o...rgent-action-cholera-outbreak-rapidly-spreads