Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 26th March. UN aid coordination office on Monday said that cholera has killed 9 people in the last week across Somalia and over 50 in recent months, in a press release issued in New York.
The alert from OCHA confirms that the preventable disease is spreading, with increasing numbers of infections reported in Hirshabelle, Puntland and South West states.
The outbreak is expected to escalate when the Gu rains start next month, especially in high-risk districts located along the Shabelle and Juba River basins, it said.
WHO reported three times more infections so far in 2024 than in the last three years and Mogadishu, has also seen rise in cholera cases in the last two weeks.
Over 6 in 10 of the deceased have been children under five in an outbreak that’s being driven by high levels of malnutrition, poor access to clean water and toilets along with open defecation.
It added that 1.4 million cholera vaccine doses have been approved.
Over 100 cholera kits have been prepositioned across the country, with supplies to treat 10,500 patients, it added.
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