Chikungunya fever is turning into a disaster in the eastern city of Kassala

Chikungunya fever is turning into a disaster in the eastern city of Kassala
Kassala - Sudan
 Is the impact of the autumn season every year, the Sudanese cities are paralyzed during the rainy season because of the lack of appropriate banks.
The stagnant rainwater has been a concern for the population as it provides an incubator for breeding mosquitoes and disease-carrying insects. This year, however, the effects of the fall were disastrous for the people of the eastern state of Kassala, after the floods destroyed more than 10,000 homes. They entered another battle with the Chikungunya fever, which killed thousands, with 6,000 cases reported by the Sudanese Ministry of Health.
According to statements by a number of residents of the city of Kassala to the «statement», there is no house left of the city only entered the fever, with a shortage of necessary drugs. Mohammed, a resident of the old neighborhood of Khatmiyah, says the fever has hit three members of his family. All the houses in the city are free of injury. Mohammed complains of the lack of medicines and the deterioration of health services provided by the main hospital and health centers in the city.
"It is inconceivable that fever can affect this number of people, and the responsible authorities do not provide the required medicines, and here people can not afford to make a living. The government must close the entrances of the city and declare it an infected area."
A weak response
In turn, Ibrahim Hamed pointed out that the response of the concerned government agencies was weak at the beginning of the disease, which led to the spread of the spread of all the neighborhoods of the city, and continued «stagnant water still represents a threat to the environment and human health, the Ministry of Health in the state failed to provide pesticides for swimming pools Water ».
While others saw the tragedies they face when they go to the main hospital in the city of Kassala and health centers that lack the simplest services, and a number of respondents surveyed «the statement» that the injured and their families in the open after the overcrowding of the hospital and health centers of patients in addition to the scarcity of medicines and high prices if any.
The deputy governor of Kassala, Majzoub Abu Musa, refused to comment on the health conditions, which are constantly worsening with each day. The Ministry of Health announced the registration of 6,250 cases of the disease.
The head of the emergency department in the Sudanese Ministry of Laila Hamad Nile that most of the cases of fever recorded in the city of Kassala and most of them are located in areas west of the Gash River and some neighborhoods to the east, and attributed the outbreak of the disease to the heavy rains that hit the state recently, which led to the mosquito breeding heavily inside houses and storage Water
The importance of awareness
The Ministry of Health intervened to eradicate the disease by increasing the number of doctors in the state, providing free medicines and combating the carrier of the disease in all available ways, Hamad Al-Nile said at a ministry meeting on the disease, stressing the importance of raising awareness and spreading mosquito control methods and the importance of concerted efforts to eliminate mosquitoes. the state
She revealed that the ministry needed to provide 958 workers to cover the local Kassala, and about 250 workers to work outside to fight mosquitoes
Health authorities in Kassala have confirmed the spread of viral feces. The medical director of Kassala Hospital, Dr. Abdul Jabbar said in press statements that the hospital declined to receive cases of fear of infection spread, while citizens of the region overcrowded health centers in different neighborhoods of patients
Where he receives a health center neighborhood Berno about 150 cases a day. They explained that the symptoms of the disease is severe fever accompanied by severe pain in the joints with the difficulty of movement, and reported the spread of the disease in the neighborhoods of West Gash, Halnakh, Berri, Khatmiyah, marinas, and squares
Doctors said that the fever spread in Kassala transmitted by mosquitoes of the Egyptian Eagles carrier, there is no cure for the disease, and focuses on treatment to alleviate the symptoms. They said the disease was dangerous for children, the elderly, diabetics and the heart
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Khartoum - Tarek Othman