{"id":184123,"date":"2014-10-27T14:22:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T14:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dabangasudan.preview.websight.nl\/six-refugees-die-of-fever-malnutrition-in-central-darfur-camp\/"},"modified":"2014-10-27T14:22:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T14:22:00","slug":"six-refugees-die-of-fever-malnutrition-in-central-darfur-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/six-refugees-die-of-fever-malnutrition-in-central-darfur-camp","title":{"rendered":"Six refugees die of fever, malnutrition in Central Darfur camp"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Chadian refugees of Um Shalaya camp, Azum locality in Central Darfur, complain about increased deaths, caused by \u201can unknown fever\u201d, accompanied by coughing, vomiting, and diarrhoea.<\/p>\n

\u201cSix people died so far, among them three children,\u201d Wardi Bahreldin, representative of the Chadian refugees in Darfur, told Radio Dabanga on Sunday. He said that the first cases appeared on 20 October. \u201cCurrently there is no home without a patient suffering from this fever.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added that there is only one health centre in the camp, and appealed to the state\u2019s health authorities and aid organisations to provide more health care and medicines \u201cas soon as possible\u201d.<\/p>\n

Three patients in one bed<\/strong><\/p>\n

The medical assistant of the Um Shalaya refugee camp attributed the deaths to the spread of diseases such as malaria and respiratory infections. \u201cBesides many people, and in particular children, are suffering from diarrhoea. Most of them are chronically malnourished,\u201d he explained to Radio Dabanga.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese days, the general practitioner and two medical assistants at the health centre are receiving between 350 to 400 patients daily. We are currently accommodating between 120 to 175 people in the centre, which means that one bed is shared by three patients. Apart from an acute lack of beds, we are also short of medicines,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n

Pollution, tuberculosis<\/strong><\/p>\n

A medical specialist at the Ministry of Environment has confirmed the emergence of hitherto unknown diseases in Darfur, South Kordofan and Blue Nile. \u201cIn particular these war-torn regions show an increase in pollution rates.\u201d<\/p>\n

The director of the National Programme Against Tuberculosis, Dr Heba Kamal, recently announced that there are more than 20,000 cases of tuberculosis in Sudan. She warned that a number of patients have become immune to the treatment. \u201cThis means that the fatality rate will rise to 50 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n

File photo: Staff members of El Geneina Teaching Hospital receive vaccination against Yellow Fever, November 2012 (Albert Gonz\u00e1lez Farran\/Unamid)<\/em><\/p>\n

Related: <\/em><\/p>\n

Children dying of malnutrition in North Darfur’s Kabkabiya<\/a> (26 October 2014)<\/p>\n

Two die from bleeding, fever in West Kordofan<\/a> (24 October 2014)<\/p>\n

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