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Dr. Maker Malok, Director General in the State Ministry of Health, told Sudans Post on Wednesday that the cases were reported in Yirol East and Awerial County.
“As we speak, we have accumulative cases of 488 people that are affected by cholera in 3 counties, and in these three counties, we have recorded 22 death cases of all cholera in 3 counties.
Malak said 461 people have so far recovered and have been discharged.
“So, as we speak, we admitted 8 patients in Yirol East, 5 in Awerial County, and out of these 8 patients, we lost 3 in Yirol East and 1 patient in Awerial County recently,” he said.
Malok advised residents to drink clean water to stop the spread of cholera.
“We are now working very hard as a county team in these 3 counties to ensure that our people have access to clean drinking water and also that they can boil water when they are fetching water from the Nile, and we advised them to filter it very well and use a water guard.”
He said plans are underway to launch a vaccination campaign to prevent the spread of cholera in three counties of Lakes State.
“We are working closely with the national ministry of health and WHO to address all these emergency situations that we are seeing in these 3 counties of Lakes State, and as we speak, our case management teams in 3 counties are working very well.”
Dr. Michael Kuot Amoot, Awerial County medical officer, confirmed that they have recorded 4 new cholera cases in the last few days.
“In Awerial County, we are having 4 cases and 1 patient in the treatment center, and these 4 new cases of cholera are basically in the highland because in Awerial County,” said Amoot.
He said most of these cases were recorded in islands with poor sanitation and limited access to clean water.
“We are having 16 highlands, and these 16 highlands are all infected with cholera. We are receiving cases every day in each and every one of the highlands, and it seems this month,” he said.
“We are receiving more cases in different highlands that were not infected early, and let me just brief you on the total number of accumulated cases of suspected cholera.”
Abraham Matur, a member of Civil Society in Lakes State, urged the state authorities to help reduce the spread of cholera diseases.
In October this year, the National Ministry of Health declared a cholera outbreak in Renk, Upper Nile State.
This declaration came following reports of 44 suspected cholera cases and six laboratory-confirmed cases on 23 October 2024 in Renk, Upper Nile State.
The first suspected case was reported on 28 September 2024 after the County Health Department received a report of a suspected case of cholera at the point of entry in Renk, a border town between Sudan and South Sudan.
