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The cholera spike began in mid-May, with MSF teams treating almost 2,000 suspected cholera cases in the past week alone, according to the Sudan coordinator for MSF, Joyce Bakker. She said the scenes in treatment centres were “disturbing”, with many patients arriving “too late to be saved.”
A new cholera outbreak in Sudan has killed 172 people and infected more than 2,500 over the past week, authorities said on Tuesday.
Most cases were reported in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, and its twin city of Omdurman, but cholera was also detected in other provinces across the country. Medical NGO Doctors Without Borders, also known as Médecins Sans Frontières or MSF, said Sudan’s healthcare facilities were unable to cope with the surge of patients.
The cholera spike began in mid-May, with MSF teams treating almost 2,000 suspected cholera cases in the past week alone, according to the Sudan coordinator for MSF, Joyce Bakker. She said the scenes in treatment centres were “disturbing”, with many patients arriving “too late to be saved.”
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She called for a united response, including water, sanitation, and hygiene programmes and more treatment facilities. In March, MSF said that 92 people had died of cholera in Sudan’s White Nile State, where 2,700 people had contracted the disease since late February.
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