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The global medical charity says that the situation has deteriorated with the arrival of refugees from South Sudan, where thousands are infected.
At least 31 people were killed by a “rapidly spreading” cholera epidemic, which has become ill than 1500 people in EthiopiaThe Gambela region in the last month, according to doctors without borders known by its French initials MSF.
The International Medical Charity said on Friday that the situation has worsened with the arrival of people who are running away from violence to neighboring Southern SudanS
“Cholera is rapidly spreading to Western Ethiopia and in parallel, the hearth in southern Sudan continues, threatening thousands of lives,” MSF said in a statement.
Several regions of Ethiopia, the second most populated nation in Africa with about 120 million people, are struggling with cholera outbreaks, such as Amhara, its second-largest region-medium-sized strokes.
Cholera is an acute intestinal infection, spread through food and water contaminated with the Vibrio Cholerae bacterium, often of fecal origin.
Southern Sudan
In South Sudan County, located in the area of the upper Nile, 1300 cases of cholera have been reported in the last four weeks, according to MSF. It states that the recent violence surrounding the upper Nile between the government of South Sudan and the armed groups “deteriorates the hearth”.
“Thousands are exchanged, lose access to health care, safe water and sewage,” MSF said.
Southern Sudan, the most jerk nation in the world and still struck by chronic instability and poverty, announced a cholera epidemic last October.
“In Ethiopia, we treat patients, provide clean water and increase the awareness of the disease. In South Sudan, we provide life -saving care, “MSF reports.
“In the affected areas, urgent support for health establishments is required, the provision of a safe water and vaccination campaign for water and cholera to stop the spread of the disease.”
Prevention
According to the World Health Organization, about 4,000 people were killed by a “preventable and easily treatable disease” in 2023, which is 71 percent compared to the previous year, mainly in AfricaS
The threat of the spread of cholera in Ethiopia is further complicated by the tension of boiling between Ethiopia and Eritrea, which observers have said it can lead to armed conflict.
The warnings arise from the new instability in the Tigrai region in Northern Ethiopia, where a Civil war From 2020-2022 he killed hundreds of thousands of people.
