{"id":177822,"date":"2017-08-07T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T18:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dabangasudan.preview.websight.nl\/new-cholera-cases-recorded-in-darfur-numbers-drop-in-sennar\/"},"modified":"2017-08-07T18:15:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T18:15:00","slug":"new-cholera-cases-recorded-in-darfur-numbers-drop-in-sennar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/new-cholera-cases-recorded-in-darfur-numbers-drop-in-sennar","title":{"rendered":"New cholera cases in Darfur, numbers drop in Sennar"},"content":{"rendered":"

One cholera patient died and 39 new cases were reported in Darfur over the weekend. In eastern Sudan’s Sennar, the spread of the infectious disease seems to be halted.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Speaking to Radio Dabanga from Ghurra Farajawiya in El Sareif Beni Hussein locality in North Darfur, a volunteer reported that one person died of cholera on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Four new cases were reported in the area. Two of them were transferred to the isolation unit in the nearby village of Ghurra El Zawiya.<\/p>\n

The isolation centre in West Darfur’s Murnei camp for the displaced received 25 new cholera patients on Saturday, a camp elder reported. He said that 47 cholera patients were being treated at the camp’s isolation centre on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The isolation ward of the Royal Hospital of Zalingei, capital of Central Darfur, admitted 10 new cases on Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n

‘Remarkable decrease’<\/strong><\/p>\n

In Sennar state in eastern Sudan, where cholera has been ravaging in a number of localities, isolation centres in El Dindir, El Souki, and Singa witnessed a remarkable decrease in infection rates in the past few days.<\/p>\n

A medical source told Radio Dabanga that during the past two days no new patients from El Souki locality arrived at the Hospital of Singa, the capital of Sennar.<\/p>\n

“The hospital admitted only four new cases of cholera from villages near Singa on Saturday and Sunday,” he said.<\/p>\n

The source also pointed to a drop of infection rates at the five isolation units in El Dindir locality. “The average number of new patients decreased to two to three cases daily.”<\/p>\n

He attributed the decrease in new cases to “the intensive health awareness campaigns by young volunteers in the affected villages”.<\/p>\n

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