Four children die in Murnei hospital, West Darfur
Four children died on Thursday at West Darfur’s Murnei hospital as a result of high fever, diarrhoea, and vomiting. Sources affirm that dozens of other children are currently being treated at the hospital for the same symptoms.The hospital, which receives “300 patients daily”, lacks medicines which, when available, cost more than SDG100 ($22.70), one parent told Radio Dabanga. He added that the hospital is “unable to provide malaria check-ups.”The coordinator of Murnei camps is demanding that state authorities help them combat the situation, reiterating that 72 people have died in the area during the months of August and September.File photo by Albert González Farran/UnamidRelated: Disease kills 72 in Murnei camps; militia attacks on West Darfur markets (7 October 2013)
Four children died on Thursday at West Darfur’s Murnei hospital as a result of high fever, diarrhoea, and vomiting. Sources affirm that dozens of other children are currently being treated at the hospital for the same symptoms.
The hospital, which receives “300 patients daily”, lacks medicines which, when available, cost more than SDG100 ($22.70), one parent told Radio Dabanga. He added that the hospital is “unable to provide malaria check-ups.”
The coordinator of Murnei camps is demanding that state authorities help them combat the situation, reiterating that 72 people have died in the area during the months of August and September.
File photo by Albert González Farran/Unamid
Related: Disease kills 72 in Murnei camps; militia attacks on West Darfur markets (7 October 2013)
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