Khartoum, October 19 (IANS). The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned that more than 3 million people in Sudan are at risk of cholera.
“3.1 million people are at risk of cholera, including 5 lakh children under the age of five,” UNICEF said in a post on social platform X on Friday.
According to UNICEF, vaccination coverage in Sudan has dropped from 85 percent before the conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces began in April 2023 to about 50 percent.
More than 70 percent of hospitals in conflict-affected areas are closed and frontline health care workers have not been paid for months.
According to Xinhua news agency, epidemics such as cholera, malaria, measles and dengue fever have spread since the civil war began, causing hundreds of deaths.
Sudan’s Health Ministry announced an outbreak of cholera in the country in August. The cause of the outbreak of cholera was said to be the deteriorating environmental conditions due to conflict and the use of impure water.
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