Al-Sabah Al-Yemeni
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says more than 570 suspected cases of cholera have been treated in Yemen during the past three weeks, some seven months after the outbreak of the infectious disease was declared in the country.
“There are fears that the disease could turn into an epidemic. Two years into the war, the healthcare system has collapsed, hospitals are destroyed.” said the spokesperson for the international medical charity.
He added that the MSF had witnessed a marked increase over the past week in suspected cholera cases in five provinces across the country. Abdelhakim al-Kahlani, the spokesman for Yemen’s Ministry of Health, said the bacterial infection had resurfaced the previous week in the impoverished country, with reported cases in 10 provinces. He added that two cholera-related fatalities had been confirmed in the capital Sana’a, three in the central province of Ibb and four in the western province of Hudaydah. Kahlani reported that the total number of cholera cases had reached 1,350 cases in all provinces in Yemen.
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