{"id":3191,"date":"2019-06-20T22:40:03","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T22:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=3191"},"modified":"2019-06-24T05:47:38","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T05:47:38","slug":"galmudug-diarrhoea-outbreak-in-eldibir-with-no-hospital-nearby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2019\/06\/20\/galmudug-diarrhoea-outbreak-in-eldibir-with-no-hospital-nearby\/","title":{"rendered":"Galmudug: Diarrhoea outbreak in Eldibir with no hospital nearby"},"content":{"rendered":"

ADAADO (SoOHA) –<\/strong> Two children have died and 300 others are infected in a diarrhoea outbreak in Eldibir village, Galmudug state health ministry has reported.<\/p>\n

The ministry dispatched a delegation led by Dr Mohamed Ali Kahiye to assess the situation in Eldibir.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Radio Ergo by phone, Dr Mohamed said that the first batch of patients with symptoms of diarrhoea was reported two weeks ago.<\/p>\n

Two children, a girl aged four and a boy aged seven, died last week due to lack of treatment.<\/p>\n

Most of the 300 patients, including 180 children, are staying at their homes as the village has no hospital.<\/p>\n

The doctor attributed the outbreak of the disease to the lack of clean water and the hot weather, saying that locals are drawing dirty water from boreholes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe assessed the situation. The sun is overhead there and it is hot. There was little rain. People are drinking unclean water from the boreholes. Most probably the cause of the disease might be these two factors,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Dr Mohamed said they took eight people whose condition had deteriorated to Galkayo hospital for treatment. Galkayo town is 180 km away.<\/p>\n

\u201cTheir health was not good; we transported them to the town. The patients were suffering from uncontrollable diarrhoea and vomiting,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Abdikadir Mohamed Guleid, the father of the seven-year-old boy who died, said he felt helpless as his son was sick for a week.<\/p>\n

He failed to secure the $300 he needed to pay for transport to take his child to Galkayo.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt first the boy started passing loose watery stool and had a high fever. There is no hospital in the area and I was unable to take him to the town,\u201d Abdikadir told Radio Ergo by phone.<\/p>\n

Abdirahman Ali Ahmed, who owns a private clinic in Eldibir, said he was seeing around 10 people a day with diarrhoea. He charges for his services.<\/p>\n

\u201cI check the person\u2019s temperature then I give them what I can to deal with the disease including a drip and oral rehydration salt solution. Those in serious condition are referred to Galkayo hospital,\u201d Abdirahman told Radio Ergo.<\/p>\n

Two of Sa\u2019adiyo Mohamud Ali\u2019s children have fallen sick with diarhoea.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the last four days, I have been coming to this clinic. I could not take these children to Galkayo town for treatment because I don\u2019t have money. I already have a debt to the owner of the clinic in the village,\u201d she told Radio Ego by phone.<\/p>\n

Source: Radio Ergo<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ADAADO (SoOHA) – Two children have died and 300 others are infected in a diarrhoea outbreak in Eldibir village, Galmudug state health ministry has reported. The ministry dispatched a delegation led by Dr Mohamed Ali Kahiye to assess the situation in Eldibir. Speaking to Radio Ergo by phone, Dr Mohamed said that the first batch …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-health-cluster","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3191"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3196,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191\/revisions\/3196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}