{"id":175830,"date":"2018-08-29T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dabangasudan.preview.websight.nl\/chikungunya-fever-reported-in-sudan-s-kassala\/"},"modified":"2022-12-28T04:19:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T03:19:09","slug":"chikungunya-fever-reported-in-sudan-s-kassala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/chikungunya-fever-reported-in-sudan-s-kassala","title":{"rendered":"Chikungunya fever reported in Sudan\u2019s Kassala"},"content":{"rendered":"

Health authorities in Kassala have confirmed the spread of viral fevers. The medical director of Kassala hospital, Dr Abdel Jabbar, said in a press statement that the hospital has refrained from receiving cases.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Doctors said that the fever in Kassala is called Chikungunya*,transmitted by mosquitoes of the Egyptian eugenics, for which there is no cure, with the treatment focused on alleviating the symptoms.<\/p>\n

They said the disease is especially dangerous for children, the elderly, diabetics, and heart patients.<\/p>\n

The residents confirmed to Radio Dabanga the overcrowding of the health centres in the various districts with patients, where El Borno district health centre is receiving about 150 cases a day.<\/p>\n

They explained that the symptoms of the disease include severe fever accompanied with severe pain in the joints and difficulty of movement.<\/p>\n

They reported the spread of the disease in the districts of West El Gash and El Halanga.<\/p>\n

Strike<\/strong><\/p>\n

The doctors of El Obeid Hospital in North Kordofan entered a strike on Monday and Tuesday in protest against the attack on a hospital doctor by a member of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia.<\/p>\n

Witnesses told Radio Dabanga that one of the members of the rapid support militia slapping and kicked a doctor in the surgery department after a discussion between them.<\/p>\n

The doctors conditioned lifting the strike with holding the rapid support militia member accountable.<\/p>\n

In Khartoum, the Ministry of Health has acknowledged the increase in cases of kidney failure and the lack of medicine for kidney patients, especially Iberks.<\/p>\n

The director of the planning unit of Kidney disease and general surgery programme has held the department of medical supplies responsible for the erratic provision of medication.<\/p>\n

*Chikungunya Key facts (Source: WHO<\/a>)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n