A few days after the launch of the appeals for the dissemination of “dengue feverIn several Sudanese regions, the country’s Central Committee of Doctors has announced the appearance of another epidemic.
And he added, in a statement on Wednesday, that the new disease is unknown and has not yet been diagnosed.
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He also said that it appeared in the Gereida locality, South Darfur, and injured more than 100 people.
He confirmed that no deaths have been recorded so far.
He also revealed that his symptoms include fever, body aches, shaking and sudden loss of consciousness.
In turn, doctors at Gereida Hospital in the Sudanese state of South Darfur said the hospital received more than 100 strange seizures between yesterday and this morning.
They added, in a statement to Al-Arabiya/Al-Hadath, that the wounded complained of headaches and neck and back pain, some of which was accompanied by convulsions and loud screams.
They also followed that the cases are on the rise, explaining that when they are sedated with drugs for a few hours, they soon revert to their previous state.
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The local leader of the region, Jacob al-Malik, added that most of the cases received concerned girls from Gereida Secondary School.
While Laila Hamad Al-Nile, head of the Department of Epidemic Response and Control at the Federal Ministry of Health, confirmed that the ministry has not yet confirmed the nature of the widespread fevers, stressing that the ministry’s laboratories will examine the samples as they arrive. , to announce the results.
Dengue is sweeping the country
These developments come just days after the Sudanese authorities announced the outbreak of “dengue fever” in 8 states, as well as an increase in cases of malaria.
The Health Ministry also said at the time that the injuries had affected the states of Greater Darfur and Kordofan, as well as the Red Sea, Kassala and the White Nile.
He added that the state of North Darfur is the hardest hit so far by the disease, as hundreds of people have been infected, noting that hundreds of cases of malaria have also emerged.
While local officials in North Darfur have launched an appeal to central authorities and international organizations to take urgent action to limit the spread of diseases.
Interestingly, Sudan suffers from several living crises, especially economic problems such as tax hikes, poverty and unemployment as well as the weakness of the medical system in the country due to the Corona virus crisis.
