{"id":185847,"date":"2014-03-04T12:09:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T12:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dabangasudan.preview.websight.nl\/disease-killing-children-in-central-darfur-camp\/"},"modified":"2014-03-04T12:09:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T12:09:00","slug":"disease-killing-children-in-central-darfur-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/disease-killing-children-in-central-darfur-camp","title":{"rendered":"Disease killing children in Central Darfur camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five children died on Saturday in the Deleig camp for the displaced, Central Darfur, of the \u201cmysterious disease\u201d that appeared in the region more than a month ago.<\/p>\n<p>The head of the Deleig camp in Wadi Salih locality reported to Radio Dabanga that there are currently 73 infected children in the camp. \u201cThey are in critical condition. On Saturday Mawadda Ahmed Adam (1 month), Abdallah Eisa Eisa (15 months), Najla Mohamed Doka (5), and two other young children died.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that a large number of donkeys are infected too, and expressed his discontent at the lack of action by the authorities and humanitarian organisations to combat and contain the disease.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Farah Musa Adam, the medical director of the Deleig Rural Hospital, however, strongly denied to Radio Dabanga the occurrence of any death at the hospital related to whooping cough. \u201cThe first case of whooping cough emerged in February. We are not aware of any deaths outside the hospital too. The seven cases transferred to the Deleig hospital were suffering from other diseases, pneumonia, diarrhoea, and intestinal infections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adam noted that the result of the laboratory tests has not yet been received from Khartoum, stressing that though whooping cough is an epidemic disease, it is not a serious one.<\/p>\n<p><em>File photo: A doctor examines a toddler having meningitis in Darfur (Albert Gonz\u00e1lez Farran\/Unamid)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Related:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiodabanga.org\/node\/67631\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Central Darfur Minister denies deaths from mysterious disease<\/a> (28 February 2014)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiodabanga.org\/node\/67405\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018Mysterious disease\u2019 in Central Darfur kills 23 children<\/a> (23 February 2014)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiodabanga.org\/node\/66871\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">15 children die of \u2018mysterious disease\u2019 in Central Darfur<\/a> (16 February 2014)<!--break--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"sws_supernormalaction\"><button on=\"tap:superwebshare-lightbox\" class=\"superwebshare_normal_button1 superwebshare-button-large superwebshare-button-square superwebshare_prompt superwebshare_button_svg\" style=\"color:#ffffff;background-color: #d52631;\" ><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"superwebshare-svg\"  fill=\"currentColor\" viewBox=\"0 0 1000 1000\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"0\"><path stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" d=\"M789.86,323.67c91.79,0,164.25-72.46,164.25-164.25S881.64,0,789.86,0S625.6,72.46,625.6,164.25c0,4.83,0,14.49,0,24.15L306.76,371.98c-24.15-24.15-57.97-33.82-96.62-33.82c-91.79,0-164.25,72.46-164.25,164.25s72.46,164.25,164.25,164.25c38.65,0,72.46-14.49,96.62-33.82L625.6,821.26c0,9.66,0,14.49,0,19.32c0,86.96,72.46,159.42,159.42,159.42s159.42-72.46,159.42-159.42s-67.63-159.42-154.59-159.42c-33.82,0-67.63,9.66-96.62,33.82L374.4,526.57c0-9.66,0-19.32,0-24.15s0-14.49,0-24.15l318.84-188.41C717.39,314.01,751.21,323.67,789.86,323.67z\" \/><\/svg><span>Share article<\/span><\/button><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five children died on Saturday in the Deleig camp for the displaced, Central Darfur, of the \u201cmysterious disease\u201d that appeared in the region more than a month ago. The head of the Deleig camp in Wadi Salih locality reported to Radio Dabanga that there are currently 73 infected children in the camp. \u201cThey are in critical condition. On Saturday Mawadda Ahmed Adam (1 month), Abdallah Eisa Eisa (15 months), Najla Mohamed Doka (5), and two other young children died.\u201d He added that a large number of donkeys are infected too, and expressed his discontent at the lack of action by the authorities and humanitarian organisations to combat and contain the disease. Dr Farah Musa Adam, the medical director of the Deleig Rural Hospital, however, strongly denied to Radio Dabanga the occurrence of any death at the hospital related to whooping cough. \u201cThe first case of whooping cough emerged in February. We are not aware of any deaths outside the hospital too. The seven cases transferred to the Deleig hospital were suffering from other diseases, pneumonia, diarrhoea, and intestinal infections.\u201d Adam noted that the result of the laboratory tests has not yet been received from Khartoum, stressing that though whooping cough is an epidemic disease, it is not a serious one. File photo: A doctor examines a toddler having meningitis in Darfur (Albert Gonz\u00e1lez Farran\/Unamid) Related: Central Darfur Minister denies deaths from mysterious disease (28 February 2014)\u2018Mysterious disease\u2019 in Central Darfur kills 23 children (23 February 2014)15 children die of \u2018mysterious disease\u2019 in Central Darfur (16 February 2014)<\/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-185847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Disease killing children in Central Darfur 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\/disease-killing-children-in-central-darfur-camp\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Disease killing children in Central Darfur camp - Dabanga Radio TV Online\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Five children died on Saturday in the Deleig camp for the displaced, Central Darfur, of the \u201cmysterious disease\u201d that appeared in the region more than a month ago. 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The seven cases transferred to the Deleig hospital were suffering from other diseases, pneumonia, diarrhoea, and intestinal infections.\u201d Adam noted that the result of the laboratory tests has not yet been received from Khartoum, stressing that though whooping cough is an epidemic disease, it is not a serious one. 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