No fewer than forty lives have been confirmed dead in Sudan’s Darfur
region following Cholera outbreak last week as the country weathers its
worst outbreak in years.
Confirming the incident on Thursday, at a cholera isolation tent in a
Sudanese displacement camp, Doctors without Borders, MSF, said some
patients were receiving intravenous fluids, while exhausted and weak
patients sprawled on camp beds.
Medical charity MSF said the vast western region, which has been a major
battleground over more than two years of fighting between the regular
army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, RSF, had been hardest
hit by the year-old outbreak.
The NGO added that over two thousand cholera-related deaths had been
reported in the year to August 11, out of 99,700 suspected cases.
Cholera is an acute intestinal infection that spreads through food and water
contaminated with bacteria, often from faeces.
It causes severe diarrhoea, vomiting, and muscle cramps.
