{"id":188643,"date":"2012-11-02T00:18:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T00:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dabangasudan.preview.websight.nl\/hospital-director-questions-capacity-to-fight-fever\/"},"modified":"2012-11-02T00:18:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T00:18:00","slug":"hospital-director-questions-capacity-to-fight-fever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/hospital-director-questions-capacity-to-fight-fever","title":{"rendered":"Hospital director questions capacity to fight fever"},"content":{"rendered":"

The director of the Nyala teaching hospital in South Darfur, has questioned the establishment\u2019s capacity to fight the spread of yellow fever, he told Radio Dabanga on Wednesday, 31 October.<\/p>\n

Besides, Mohammed al-Fadel, who is also the hospital laboratory\u2019s director, said the weak capacity of the hospital may not be enough to treat all infected patients.<\/p>\n

At the same time, a technical team from the federal health ministry has reportedly arrived in Nyala on Wednesday to make arrangements to contain the spread of yellow fever, Radio Dabanga has learned.<\/p>\n

The federal health minister announced he expects the vaccines against yellow fever to arrive in the affected areas of Darfur within two or three weeks.  <\/p>\n

Numbers <\/strong><\/p>\n

Central Darfur state Minister of Health, Issa Mohamed Moussa said that 41 people died of yellow fever, while 84 got infected in the state.<\/p>\n

The Minister of Health of South Darfur, Ahmed Al-Tayeb, said that until Thursday, six people had died and eight got infected with the yellow fever.<\/p>\n

In West Darfur, Health Minister Ahmed Ishaq said that so far 16 cases of yellow fever have been reported in west Habila and Mornei.<\/p>\n

Related content<\/em>: Federal Health Ministry: unknown disease is yellow fever<\/a> (1 November 2012)                          98 die and 458 infected with unknown fever<\/a> (30 October 2012)<\/p>\n