Médecins Sans Frontières - ENG - Cholera outbreak response, El-Gedaref State

Unique Identifier Code / URN MSB211775

Date taken / Date Recorded 29/10/2024 8:41 AM

Country Sudan

Commissioning section MSF-SWITZERLAND

Photographer / videographer / producer Timothée Bouvet

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Nearly 1 million people are currently
internally displaced in El-Gedaref state,
one of the many states affected by the current cholera outbreak across Sudan.

MARIE-AURE PERRAUT - MSF Project Coordinator
We see hundreds of thousands of people left without the most basic access to water and to hygiene and sanitation facilities. Respiratory tract infection, water-borne disease and malaria is on the rise and this is a clear illustration of the conditions these people are left in.

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Since August, MSF has been supporting
the ministry of health in response
to the cholera outbreak. 
MSF set up a 50-bed capacity cholera treatment unit
in El-Gedaref city.
 Families have been displaced many times, leaving behind their belongings. They are among the hundreds of patients who reach to MSF for treating cholera.

Emad Hassaballa - MSF Medical Activity Manager
Cholera has high fatality rate, 50% fatality rate, and it is easily to be treated and easily to be prevented. We are doing health promotion here, and also in other places.

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Cholera adds yet another challenge to the (war) crisis in Sudan,
coupled with a very concerning nutrition situation.
 MSF teams are building latrines and chlorinate wells in the communities.
Hygiene kits are also distributed to help tackle the outbreak. But the needs are still huge.

END Marie Aure
Having hundreds of thousands of people scattered in different gathering sites makes it extremely difficult to deliver services.
We do not see enough actors organizing and supporting not only IDP communities but also the host community and the people from El-Gedaref that were also affected by this this current cholera outbreak.
We need to be able to deploy the emergency response that the situation currently needs.