Deadly cholera outbreak in Sudan kills 172 amid war and water crisis — Here's what you need to know
A cholera outbreak in Sudan kills 172 and sickens 2,500+ in one week amid a war-driven water and sanitation crisis.
Sudan faces a deadly cholera outbreak with 172 deaths and over 2,500 cases reported in the past week.
The outbreak centers around Khartoum and Omdurman as war-damaged infrastructure limits access to clean water and sanitation.
Cholera outbreak devastates Sudan amid war and infrastructure collapse
Sadly, the cholera outbreak is not the only ailment affecting Sudan. For the past 2 years, a civil war has caused one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world. The cholera outbreak has recently joined, but has already surged ninefold from 90 a day to 815 a day since from May 15-25, according to UNICEF.
More than 7,700 people have been diagnosed with cholera, since the beginning of the year. Including approximately, 1,000 children under the age of 4
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Returnees and poor sanitation fuel cholera spread
The Sudan coordinator for Doctors Without Borders, Joyce Bakker, stated that the situation for Omdurman's treatment centers was "disturbing" as they were overflowing with patients. Khartoum and Omdurman were a battleground throughout the civil war, which nearly left them without residents.
However, since then almost 34,000 have returned home, and have found their city wrecked, their homes damaged; but not clean water. People have been drinking polluted water in unhygienic containers.
