![Some of the health workers in Bor state hospital making a morning ward round. [Photo: Sudan Posts]](https://i0.wp.com/www.sudanspost.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Bor.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&quality=89&ssl=1)
Some of the health workers in Bor state hospital making a morning ward round. [Photo: Sudan Posts]
Duop Roam Kok, Director General in the State Ministry of Health, told Sudans Post on Monday that 326 cases have been confirmed, including 6 dead in Akobo County of Jonglei State.
“We have 326 patients in the hospital and 6 death cases. We recorded the 326 cases in just 14 days and another 6 deaths, and I want to assure the citizens of Jonglei State that the Ministry of Health has tried its best to control the situation,” said Kok.
Kok claimed that the county’s already precarious healthcare services have gotten worse as a result of the spike in cholera occurrences.
He said that because Akobo County had no reports of cholera outbreak cases, it was not included in the most recent cholera immunization program.
“Akobo remains behind; there was not any case received from Akobo County last time, and now we have received these cases. Then it seems that we have chased cholera away from other counties, and it is now going to Akobo.”
He said that the state ministry has sent a medical team to the county to evaluate the cholera situation in Akobo County, and that the cases are being treated at the county’s health facility.
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.
