Syria - Reported: 100+ people with typhoid fever in Yarmouk refugee camp

[sharon sanders]

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"More than a hundred injured typhoid fever due to the continuing blockade of the Yarmouk refugee camp"

Date Published: 07/18/2014


Ramallah - minimum home
Health crises exacerbated by the continued siege on the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus, which enters its second year amid the worsening humanitarian situation in it, where the blockade imposed by the regular army and groups of the Popular Front - General Command on the one hand and the bombing repeated it on the other hand, to the destruction and stop all hospitals in which to work, where he was Mhvia valiant and Fayez sweetness to the bombing frequently led to they stopped working completely, while suffering hospital Palestine acute shortage of materials and medical staff, in addition to the suspension of the power supply over a year ago and the difficulty of securing the fuels necessary for the work of electric generators, and in the same context, declared

Palestinian Red Crescent Society in the Yarmouk refugee camp they had recorded more than a hundred infected with typhoid fever (typhus) among civilians trapped inside the camp, where attributed to the acute shortage of medicines and medical services

in addition to the weakness in the overall health of the people due to lack of nutrition, it is noteworthy that the spread in the camp, jaundice and anemia responsible for the deaths of some civilians in the camp, especially the elderly who did not bear the bodies of those diseases curable and that if the siege and the harsh living conditions suffered by the residents of the camp, including without treatment.

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[sharon sanders]

Re: Syria - Reported: 100+ people with typhoid fever in Yarmouk refugee camp

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July 21, 2014

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Furthermore, it was revealed a medical source inside the Palestine Hospital in the Yarmouk refugee camp on the prevalence of fever epidemic in the camp, since the end of last week, where «is suspected of the disease through the dozens of cases that came to the hospital, and after he was transferred cases outside Yarmouk, in cooperation with the Syrian government and Red Crescent Societies, the analysis confirmed that took place in hospitals in the capital, injuring twenty people with fever due to water pollution and scarcity ». After the detection of cases, said an official source in «PFLP-GC» that the Syrian side «Enter Sterilizers water, vaccines and medical supplies urgently, and under the direct supervision of the army, which helped in the output of all patients with suspected».

http://www.al-akhbar.com/node/211046