Rate of malaria and bilharzia increases in Darfur
The health authorities in Darfur have revealed that the rate of malaria infection has reached 22% in Kas, 2% in Ad Elfursan and 2% in Eldaein. Speaking to Radio Dabanga, the head of the anti-malaria commission Dr. Jafar Abdulla Ali said that the symptoms of the disease included bruises on a patient’s arms and legs as well swelling of the reproductive organs. Due to the highly infectious nature of the disease, the infection of one person would require treatment for all the people in the county. This leaves the estimated price of treatment for the disease as $2.5 billion per year. Dr Ali claimed that 90% of the disease was caused by the anopheles mosquito and could be treated by using mechanisms to keep mosquitoes away, such as repellent treated nets. Bilharzia infection – also known as Schistosomiasis – a parasitic disease found in contaminated water, is also on the rise reaching 81% and 71% in Elsafiya and Um Salala and more than 40% in Ad Elfursan. He stated that they were able to treat 35,000 of the infected people, 16,000 of them from Talas, 14,000 in Elsalam and 5,000 in Ad Elfursan. Dr. Ali stressed the need for urgent treatment to the residents of South Jebel Mara due to a number of deaths being reported.
The health authorities in Darfur have revealed that the rate of malaria infection has reached 22% in Kas, 2% in Ad Elfursan and 2% in Eldaein. Speaking to Radio Dabanga, the head of the anti-malaria commission Dr. Jafar Abdulla Ali said that the symptoms of the disease included bruises on a patient’s arms and legs as well swelling of the reproductive organs.
Due to the highly infectious nature of the disease, the infection of one person would require treatment for all the people in the county. This leaves the estimated price of treatment for the disease as $2.5 billion per year. Dr Ali claimed that 90% of the disease was caused by the anopheles mosquito and could be treated by using mechanisms to keep mosquitoes away, such as repellent treated nets.
Bilharzia infection – also known as Schistosomiasis – a parasitic disease found in contaminated water, is also on the rise reaching 81% and 71% in Elsafiya and Um Salala and more than 40% in Ad Elfursan. He stated that they were able to treat 35,000 of the infected people, 16,000 of them from Talas, 14,000 in Elsalam and 5,000 in Ad Elfursan. Dr. Ali stressed the need for urgent treatment to the residents of South Jebel Mara due to a number of deaths being reported.
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