Cholera outbreak kills 45 people in South Sudan
June 11, 2008 (JUBA) — An acute watery diarrhoea epidemic killed 45 people in southern Sudan, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) said today.
At least 640 people are infected by the Cholera in Sudan’s Central Equatoria and Eastern Equatoria states, while 45 people have already died, the IFRC said citing government statistics.
Cholera is an acute intestinal infection spread by contaminated water or food. It causes vomiting and acute diarrhoea that can lead to dehydration and death within 24 hours.
The water-borne disease hits Sudan every year. In 2006 there were nearly 25,000 cases and more than 700 deaths recorded.
According to government figures, at least 640 cases have been reported and 45 people have already died. With regard to current risks in Southern Sudan, IFRC’s Operations Coordinator for Africa John Roche warned underlined the need “to act quickly and limit the spread of the epidemic especially by rising awareness among local communities”.
The Red Cross allocated US$241,000 from its disaster relief emergency fund to support the Sudanese Red Crescent Society in its response to an acute watery diarrhoea epidemic affecting.
The IFRC said it will distribute water purification tablets and soap to at least 360,000 people. Water points will also be treated. Around 160 Sudanese Red Crescent volunteers are already working with affected communities. It added.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimate that two-thirds of south Sudan’s population drinks unsafe water.
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Majak-da
Cholera outbreak kills 45 people in South Sudan
Ohhhh Dirty City
I thought Juba is a clean city as Logic-boy puts it.
What went wrong with CES Governor that his place is deadly?
Why can’t Wani copy from Jonglei governor such that the shadow capital is clean?
Shame on you lazy and dirty CES!
Bush
Cholera outbreak kills 45 people in South Sudan
It is not surprising to hear about Cholera’s outbreak. Juba was becoming a city of dirts(wasak). All the markets areas from Konyokonyo to Kastom market. gabbages have been thrown all over, even nearly closing the main road in Kastom market.. Terrible smell allover the area. I think the health ministry has to do a lot in this situation. Get huge containers and distribute to all market areas so that people throw the gabbages inside. Public toilets is another issue, build some in those areas. Otherwise waterbone diseases will circulate around, especially at this time ( rainy season). PLEASE HEALTH MINISTRY, do something to help our people. God bless our people in Southern Sudan.
John Amule de Lokolong
Cholera outbreak kills 45 people in South Sudan
Oh My God how terrible is this to my home land of Equatoria and South in general,please Mr president Kiir,ministers of health,Southern members,equatorian elders inlcuding governors in our respective State of Greater Equatoria please and please join hands to face this enemy known as cholera in our home country of Southern Sudan,it is for the safety of my people and their lives.We had a lot of problems in our health within South,this is because the role of health minister in South does not play enough game with our people to take personal hygiene.Therefore this sickness should not be nominated as a challenge for Equatorians alone,it should be deal/prevented properly with particular skills to avoid further spreading across South.I recommand that the movement of people in South such as business people either personal must be stopped,people must remain in their areas until we kick cholera out of South,police must take control on every road to ensure that none of our people are intending to spread this enemy,if you are in Juba you must remain in Juba whether you have emergencey or not and this must apply to all states across South.Am requesting Mr president kiir and health minsters to work with SPLA soldiers hand in hands just to stop necessary movement of people in this dangerous situation.please lets work hand in hands as united Southerners single heart and ambition.
Mr logic
Am not interested to comment about you in fact i used to visit Sudan Tribune for daily affairs, but all your ideas you have said against me, calling me with all my tribe in offensive language has never been nice am telling the truth. Please i warn you to stop adding people’s tribe in your comments, it is good if you can just insult an individuals. If you don’t trust me please go back and check out your previous comments, if Sudan Tribune could take action against people on this site i would mention you to be block and denied for good. You just address every things without understand whether it is a piece of bread that you mix with your alcohol always before visiting this site. Show some respect man, am not interested with your language i like you but watch out your little language which you have learnt whether in your short time of being as a refugee in Uganda, Kenya and etc.
Notes
Mr Logic there is no enemy in S.Sudan.
Current enemy is LRA and we are in progress for peace with NCP and Abeyi
Majak-da
Be a nice guy don’t act like logic,please lets co-operate in a right way of finding a solution to that sickness,although we are far from it,but lets contribute with words,please stop mentioning CES in general as a dirty place,remembert people on the ground of CES are living friendly to everyone,forget about this idiot who is always talking of IDPs in Equatoria,If your dinka,nuer,murle and etc,we are all one,there is nothing like dinka there and Equatorians here or nuer here and dinkas there.Those individuals who are burning houses in Nimule whether it was true incidence or not i would say Mr President would take serious action against such thing in fact we need to live united and sharing like brothers and sisters,this is because we fought in unity,together to get our rights from arabs,so why do we intend to fire ourselves without indication which way are we heading?.Please my advice to all readers we are one whether those arabs in North,we still consider them as friends beside their characters.I don’t want to read any rubbish about tribes and states we need respect so that our nation and her people including you should be respected by others.
peace to all and democracy to come
Duot Atem de juach
Cholera outbreak kills 45 people in South Sudan
Iam tired of deaths and I feel not to hear or mention it. war has taken half of the pulation of the sudan and the biggest has just arrived with confident and determination of killing all sudanese. It doesn’t care of your profession whether you are GOss official,minister or not. Prio to eradicate the deadliest disease is very simple and crucial.It is better that all the markets near water bodies such as konykonyo,kabat are removed by means of force for these are the key agents (contaminants)of the city. Custom market was removed recently giving all the ministries fresh air, and allowing a free enough vacacy for the government to decide what to do next.
Cholera inhabites Juba due to its poor hygience not curve by the goverment.
I urge the minister of transport to stop people from movement. And the same to our Ngos to look into that sooner the better.
The Wiseman
Cholera outbreak kills 45 people in South Sudan
Budi, Biar, Monye Jur
I knew that greater number of Dinkas can die of Cholera in Juba because these are hygienic people who have not adapted to poor hygienic situations where people do not defecate in latrines and toilets in Juba, hence they can be easily victimized unlike Equatorians who have already developed resistance to these poor conditions.
Why do you contradict Majakda’s comment with your feacy comments yet it is the role of the governor to make sure that the place is clean, if you know it is for the public let him not get special budget of Juba as part of central Equatoria state.
Onen Walter Solomon
Cholera outbreak kills 45 people in South Sudan
Cholera is the order of the year (not of the day) in our region because neither the so called concern nor the locals takes it responsibly unless after an “accident”.
Where is the lumpsome of “Health Money” being used for? Why giving bad reputation about our prospering country which is being nicknamed and rated as “Dollar” or “Small U.S” country, yet is unable to combat cholera?
Why should many “Dormant” Health related NGOs be allowed to concentrate only in the city if they are real volunteers other than money lovers? Please, act, drill boreholes in the countrysides,
but not blowing trumpets “We have done this and this…” You are only active if you feel the instinct of the cholera is about to strike the locals.
Yesterday was theirs but days to come will be yours. May God receive their souls and those who may pass away today or tomorrow due to negligence of our concerns.
The Wiseman
Cholera outbreak kills 45 people in South Sudan
Monye Jur, Biar, budi
Why do you want to deny every thing even those which are open? Is the budget released to Central E State in exclusion of Juba as part of the state, or do you mean that the GoSS does not also recognize and budget for Juba also as a Southern city? First reason and you will call yourself an icy sculpture of a human being.
Biar just commends with out knowing why and what to commend! These should go to Budi since he stated in his first commend that Dinkas have the greatest number, claiming that they are dirty yet the nearest example is to check Jonglei and find out. Aren’t you an automated artifact really because I don’t think that you are a normal human being? Talk to yourselves Equatorians!
Do not say God is near, I know and that is why he puts coward Equatorians among the Dinkas so that they are defended, otherwise how could you have been here when you ran without seeing an Arab, not far holding an ugly gun?
Dinkas are not after prostitutes like Equatorians. Why didn’t Garang sell Southern Sudan for a girl as Joseph Lagu did when he was the Equatorian leading S.Sudan? Time will come when you will give the whole Equatoria to LRA for a plundered beautifull girl.
Why do you study outside if you are patriotic and noit after wealth?
The Wiseman
Cholera outbreak kills 45 people in South Sudan
Monye Jur,
Your hatred which makes you to poison yourselves will keep you behind in reasoning till you extinct. Equatorians are sluggish like amoeba and parasitic like tapeworm which feeds on the host till the host dies not knowing that it will also die when the host dies. But Dinkas will resist you however much you open your wide mouths which invade the cheeks.
Sudan Tribune editor always eliminate my identifier but i still dress in different jackets and tell my normal facts of The Wise man
Why do you have many people to be paid (eat) but few to fight LRA? Your unlimited stomachs will loot the whole Sudan! Should Dinkas live Equatoria because it has come to eating but not war? Then, first fight LRA so that they know you have eaten enough to defend yourselves.
Where is Equatoria Defence Foces (EDF)? Why don’t they fight LRA, else what is their motive? Can they re-possess Torit again since SPLA from whom they re-possessed it in favor of Arabs are still there? How bitter have Arabs become when you fought SPLA in their favor? Why has Clement gone back to eat his vomits like a dog?
The Wiseman
Cholera outbreak kills 45 people in South Sudan
Biar
Is there a country in Africa by name “around Africa”? Why do you study in such an abnormal place that is maiking you more primitive than educated and vissionary? Why is the budget for CES not enough while those of other states like Jonlei which is the largest are enough?
What step has Clement Wani taken to make Juba clean yet the governor of Jonglei launches rubbish collection policy in the town and all villages periodically?
Has Wani tried to do something to make the place clean then he got constrained on the way?
Do not call for the minister for Health (except the state minister) since he did notyhing in other states yet they are clean.
James Okuk Solomon
Cholera outbreak kills 45 people in South Sudan
Where is the Egyptian Comprehensive Clinic in Juba which was praised by 1st VP President Salva Kiir when he was bowing to Egyptian Journalist in Khartoum two days ago? Where is the health development from Egypt to Central Equatoria so that South can accept Unity of the Sudan as Kiir is campaigning in the Media? Rest in peace my dear Cholera Victim as your so-called leaders keep praising your death. I hope I will not join you soon in your Cholera graves and hospital beds.
I am mourning because our leaders are failing us. May be the death stops this mourning but why has it to be so every year when there is enough money to prevent more graves and reduce sick-beds for the poor Southerners!!!! If the condoms from the “Moral Decay” in Juba Tent Hotels are thrown into the River where you drink and use water what do you expect less than Cholera my poor citizens? Just rest in peace under the heat of the soil with your corps disintegrating into dust my dear poor victims, while your pretending leaders are resting in peace on the tables of corruptions with cold beers and brown prostitutes!!!