KHARTOUM – Sudan’s Ministry of Health announced that at least 114 people have died and 281 others have been injured following floods that hit a wide range of the country coinciding with the autumn season.
The autumn emergency room said during a meeting on Thursday that more than 27,000 families and 110,000 individuals were affected by the catastrophic fallout of the autumn season.
According to the autumn emergency report, the number of states affected by the rainy season reached 10, including 47 localities, indicating that the highest levels of damage were in the northern and Nile River states. The autumn emergency room pointed to the implementation of many interventions to reduce the effects of floods and rains, noting the challenges related to the lack of means of movement and the ruggedness of roads, and the security situation in a number of states.
This comes amid warnings of the health repercussions of floods and floods, as the emergency room of Bahri City pointed to the outbreak of diseases and epidemics in light of the lack of health services and clean water. It pointed to the spread of cholera and conjunctivitis in the city, north of the capital Khartoum.
According to the health report of Bahri City Health Centers and the number of infected cases from August 1 to 20, August, five diseases are widely spread in South Bahri, including malaria, typhoid, watery diarrhea, stomach germs, dysentery, and autumn bug wounds.
The average number of cases of malaria this month has reached 15 per day, with a total of 300 cases during the entire reporting period. While the average daily infections with typhoid were 12 with a total of 240 injuries, 10 daily cases with watery diarrhea with a total of 200 infections, 4 daily infections with stomach germs with a total of 40 cases, and 10 daily with dysentery with a total of 40 cases, in addition to autumn insect wounds, where the average daily infections reached 6 with a total of 60 during the monitoring period.
According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), heavy rains and flooding in large areas in western and eastern Sudan have directly affected more than 73,000 people and displaced more than 21,000 others.
(Al-Quds Al-Arabi)
