{"id":185808,"date":"2014-03-04T12:58:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T12:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dabangasudan.preview.websight.nl\/smallpox-outbreak-in-chad-refugee-camp\/"},"modified":"2014-03-04T12:58:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T12:58:00","slug":"smallpox-outbreak-in-chad-refugee-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/smallpox-outbreak-in-chad-refugee-camp","title":{"rendered":"Smallpox outbreak in Chad refugee camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cases of smallpox are increasing in the Farchana refugee camp in eastern Chad. 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The problem is that the refugees cannot afford to buy medicines from the market.&#8221; The deputy camp head called on the organisations working in the field of health care to accelerate the provision of medicines.\u00a0 File photo: \u00a0A doctor of Doctors Without Borders examines a child in a refugee camp in the Central African Republic (MSF)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Smallpox outbreak in Chad refugee camp - Dabanga Radio TV Online<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/smallpox-outbreak-in-chad-refugee-camp\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Smallpox outbreak in Chad refugee camp - Dabanga Radio TV Online\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Cases of smallpox are increasing in the Farchana refugee camp in eastern Chad. 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