Medical sources to SOHR | Cholera cases and suspects exceed 200 in western Deir Ezzor countryside

Deir Ezzor province: SOHR activists have reported that several Cholera cases arrived at “Al-Kasra Hospital” in western Deir Ezzor countryside, amid lack of medical equipment and supplies, where dozens of Cholera suspects arrived at the hospital to receive proper medication.

According to a medical source in the hospital, the “Services Office” was contacted with to provide the water stations with chlorine and to sterilize the water, after the increase in the number of affected cases, where the results were good and most cases were healed.

Moreover, due to the media intimidation about the outbreak of Cholera, anyone who suffers from diarrhea and intestinal upset as a result of the bad weather they would head to the hospital in fear of being affected by “Cholera.”

According to the sources, the clinics started operating in several areas to reduce the pressure off Al-Kasra Hospital, where clinics were distributed in Al-Jazara, Al-Hawayj and Mahimida towns with 24 hours of service, where medicine and intravenous fluids are always available.

Moreover, lectures are being given in Al-Tayana, Zayban, Suwaydan and Al-Jarzy areas to raise awareness.

Accordingly, the Cholera cases and suspects has risen to 200, while the number of deaths has risen to four.

On September 13, the Health Committee and the Organization Office in western Deir Ezzor province made a distress appeal to the concerned authorities to support the health sector to provide health support to the Western Deir Ezzor sector following the outbreak of cholera and the increasing number of infected cases, which increased the burden on the health sector in the region.

The text of the statement, a copy of which had been obtained by SOHR, read, as follows: “We, the Health Committee and the Organization Office in the Western Region, Deir Ezzor Civil Council, the Health and Humanitarian Organizations Authority and the World Health Organization, appeal for rapid intervention and support to the health sector in the Western Region and to provide medicines, serums, beds and medical supplies.

Due to the rapid increase in cases of cholera, the number of infected cases is ranged between 38-46 cases a day. Al-Kasra Hospital and health centres no longer accommodate these cases, so we call for quick medical support so that we can control the disease.”