At least 24 people have been killed and more than 800 others have been transferred to hospital in the state of white Nile in southern Sudan in the last three days, due to a disease transmitted by water, announced MSF on Friday.
The triggering of the disease comes after an attack by non-pilot planes on Umm Dabaker to produce electricity, located 275 km south of the capital, Khartoum, which led to obstruct access to drinking water In the city of Kosti, the white Nile.
“The most vulnerable source of infection is the river, because many families have gone to bring water using vehicles drawn by donkeys after electric current in the region.”
The authorities have since prohibited the collection of water from the river and called to add additional doses of chlorine to the water distribution system, and most of the local restaurants have been closed as a precaution.
The NGO said that the Kosti University Hospital Treatment Center is filled with “severe, dry and vomiting” patients.
According to MSF, 800 additional patients reached the cholera treatment center between Wednesday and Friday.
Since April 2023, Sudan has witnessed the war between the army and the rapid support forces, killing tens of thousands of thousands and moving millions, and caused a severe humanitarian crisis.
Last month, the International Committee of the Red Cross warned against increasing attacks against civil infrastructure installations, including power plants, which leads to an obstruction of the current and clean water availability For millions of residents in the country.
Last year, the Sudanese government announced the outbreak of the cholera epidemic in the country, 24,609 cases and 699 deaths by October.
The Ministry of Health said that it “has mobilized more than 100 medical executives and has provided more than 6,000 intravenous solutions and all aid for treating patients, in addition to the environmental health team, aquatic safety and health promotion “.
Cholera is an acute infection that causes diarrhea and is caused by food consumption or drinking water contaminated by bacteria, according to the World Health Organization.
The war caused enormous damage to the dilapidated health sector in Sudan and, according to official figures, around 80% of health establishments have ceased to work in the conflict -affected areas.
The state of the white Nile saw the city of Kosti the climbing of confrontations this week, including an attack which launched 3 days launched by the rapid support forces in the cities 200 km north of Kosti, killing more than 200 people.
According to the International Immigration Organization on Thursday, more than 6,500 families were forced to flee during the first and second days of the attack near the city of Qatina.