Deaths and dozens of injuries .. “cholera” is spreading in Syria

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and benefits Autonomous Administration Health Authority In a statement on its monitoring "disease injuries cholera in tenderness (North) and the western countryside of Deir ez-Zor (east) in abundance"3 confirmed deaths.

She appealed to the authority "International organizations, especially World Health Organization Providing the necessary support to curb the spread of cholera".

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the spread of the disease is caused by the contamination of drinking water, due to the local authorities’ cessation of distributing chlorine to water stations during the past three months.

He reported the emergence of many symptoms of the disease in the population, including vomiting, diarrhea and headache.

Cholera usually appears in residential areas that suffer from scarcity of drinking water or lack of sewage systems, and is often caused by eating contaminated food or water, and leads to diarrhea and vomiting.

After an 11-year conflict, witness Syria A severe water crisis, with the impact of the destruction of the water infrastructure andSewage.

According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the conflict affected nearly two-thirds of the number of water treatment plants, half of the pumping stations, and a third of water tanks.

About half of the population depends on alternative sources that are often unsafe to meet or supplement their water needs, while at least 70 percent of wastewater is not treated, according to UNICEF.

In a report last October, the International Committee of the Red Cross warned that access to safe drinking water is a challenge that affects millions of people across Syria, with drinking water now 40 percent less available than it was a decade ago.

Prior to 2010, 98 percent of urban residents and 92 percent of rural communities had access to clean drinking water, according to the same source.

The capacity of international organizations to provide services in this area is diminished by the lack of funding.

According to MSF, WASH services made up only 4 percent of the entire humanitarian response budget across Syria last year, less than a third of what was spent in 2020 on the same activities.

And neighboring Iraq, since June, has witnessed a wave of cholera cases, for the first time since 2015.

The disease affects between 1.3 million and 4 million people annually in the world, and leads to the death of between 21 thousand and 143 thousand people.

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and benefits Autonomous Administration Health Authority In a statement about her monitoring of “disease injuries.” cholera in tenderness (North) and the western countryside of Deir ez-Zor (east) in abundance,” confirming the registration of 3 deaths.

The authority appealed to “international organizations on top of it World Health Organization Providing the necessary support to curb the spread of cholera.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the spread of the disease is caused by the contamination of drinking water, due to the local authorities’ cessation of distributing chlorine to water stations during the past three months.

He reported the emergence of many symptoms of the disease in the population, including vomiting, diarrhea and headache.

Cholera usually appears in residential areas that suffer from scarcity of drinking water or lack of sewage systems, and is often caused by eating contaminated food or water, and leads to diarrhea and vomiting.

After an 11-year conflict, witness Syria A severe water crisis, with the impact of the destruction of the water infrastructure andSewage.

According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the conflict affected nearly two-thirds of the number of water treatment plants, half of the pumping stations, and a third of water tanks.

About half of the population depends on alternative sources that are often unsafe to meet or supplement their water needs, while at least 70 percent of wastewater is not treated, according to UNICEF.

In a report last October, the International Committee of the Red Cross warned that access to safe drinking water is a challenge that affects millions of people across Syria, with drinking water now 40 percent less available than it was a decade ago.

Prior to 2010, 98 percent of urban residents and 92 percent of rural communities had access to clean drinking water, according to the same source.

The capacity of international organizations to provide services in this area is diminished by the lack of funding.

According to MSF, WASH services made up only 4 percent of the entire humanitarian response budget across Syria last year, less than a third of what was spent in 2020 on the same activities.

And neighboring Iraq, since June, has witnessed a wave of cholera cases, for the first time since 2015.

The disease affects between 1.3 million and 4 million people annually in the world, and leads to the death of between 21 thousand and 143 thousand people.

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