The General Coordination of Displaced Persons and Refugee Camps in Darfur indicated that the number of deaths from cholera in the region has risen to 429, with 10,854 recorded infections.
According to the Coordination, 192 new cases and six deaths were registered, as the epidemic continues to spread across several areas of Darfur, including the villages and localities surrounding Zalingei and Jebel Marra in Central Darfur, Nyala in the south, Khasan Jadeed in Shaeria locality in the east, as well as in the displacement camps where the disease has spread at unprecedented rates.
It explained that, amid shortages of medical supplies and other services in isolation centers, humanitarian organizations, local volunteers, emergency rooms, and local authorities are making tremendous efforts to combat the disease.
However, it added, “there remain significant challenges and difficulties due to the rising rates of infection, in addition to malaria, child malnutrition, and hunger.”
The Coordination pointed out that these challenges threaten lives and represent a nightmare and a forgotten humanitarian catastrophe that the international community continues to ignore in a country torn apart by war, famine, diseases, epidemics, and food shortages.
It appealed to humanitarian organizations—particularly the World Health Organization and related institutions—to intensify efforts in response to the dire health and humanitarian emergency facing Sudanese communities in displacement areas, where epidemics, diseases, hunger, war, and natural disasters converge.
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