Via Radio Dabanga: Yellow fever casualty reported in C. Darfur camp. Excerpt:
A Zalingei camps coordinator, in Central Darfur, announced that one person died and another five were infected by yellow fever in the past weeks, Radio Dabanga has learned on Tuesday, 27 November.
The fatal victim is Abdul Rezek Abdel Mawla, the coordinator said, explaining that infected patients are being transferred from health centers in Hamidiya and Hassahissa camps to Zalingei hospital.
According to him, yellow fever cases are only appearing now in camps as a result of the spraying campaigns carried out by health authorities. He appealed that these campaigns are intensified in camps, towns and villages of Central Darfur.
‘Not true’
The Minister of Health from Central Darfur, Issa Mohamed Musa Yusuf, assured that the declarations made by the Zalingei camps coordinator are not true. He stressed that there are no cases of yellow fever in the Hamidiya camp.
He declared that only one person died of yellow fever in camp Hassahissa, but that the victim actually contracted the disease in a farm in Tululu area, and not in the camp.
Yusuf also announced that four cases of yellow fever were registered at the El-Salam camp, but that also these victims contracted the disease elsewhere, namely around the El-Sreji area.
Speaking to the legislative council in Khartoum, Sudan's Federal Minister of Health, Bahr Idriss Abu Garda stressed that no cases of yellow fever have been reported in displaced camps in Darfur. On the same occasion, he acknowledged the weak potential of the state to fight the disease, despite 'major' efforts from state health ministries.
