Nyala, May 30(Darfur24)
The Ministry of Health in South Darfur State announced on Thursday the recording of eight cholera cases, including one death, in the city of Nyala.
Abbas Hassan Shams El Din, Director of the Health Emergency and Epidemic Control Department at the Ministry of Health, stated that Nyala Teaching Hospital received four suspected cases on Tuesday. Following testing conducted by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) using a rapid testing device, the results were confirmed to be cholera. He noted that the Emergency Department sent the results to the ISTAC Laboratory, where they were also confirmed.
He indicated that one of the four cases died, and that the hospital received four new cases on Wednesday, bringing the total number of cases to seven, including one death.
He added that the state has taken measures, including the opening of an isolation center at Nyala Teaching Hospital by MSF until a separate isolation center is established. In addition, the state health authorities, MSF, and humanitarian organizations in the state have begun making initial arrangements to control the situation. By allocating an isolation center before the situation worsens.
In this context, the Director General of the Ministry of Health, Ahmed Abdullah, stated that the ministry is relying on organizations to contain the disease by providing treatment, raising health awareness, and sanitizing the environment, in addition to allocating an isolation center.
Cholera has spread to more than five Sudanese states, with South Darfur joining the states affected by the cholera epidemic, amid the near-total collapse of the health system, which has been affected by the ongoing war.