Amid ongoing inaction by humanitarian organisations | Cholera spreads among Afrin displaced people in north Aleppo countryside

Aleppo province: SOHR sources have reported that areas under the control of Kurdish and regime forces in the northern countryside of Aleppo have witnessed a rapid spread of cholera among the residents who have been forcibly displaced from Afrin to north Aleppo countryside, amid ongoing inaction by international humanitarian organisations to provide clean drinking water in that region.

 

It is worth noting that residents in this area have depended on artesian wells to get water, as international humanitarian organisations have stopped providing this area with drinking water for nearly a year under the pretext of the “poor support which those organisations obtain.”

 

According to SOHR sources, the number of confirmed cholera infections has reached 40 people, as well as the death of an elderly woman. In addition, nearly 100 other people have showed cholera symptoms, amid concerns about further spread of the infection among the residents because of the poor support provided by international and local humanitarian organisations, including providing of need medicines.

 

Moreover, regime forces have imposed large levies on medicines in return for allowing them to be delivered in north Aleppo countryside; this, in turn, caused a considerable increase in the medicine prices and the running out of some types.