Eight more people have died from Cholera at Buurdhuxule village in Bakool region, raising the number killed by the disease to 60 since the outbreak was reported. on Sunday Idale News Online Reports.
Over patients are currently admitted in a special ward at Buur- dhuxule Hospital suffering from the disease.
Residence has also set up camps in the district to help mitigate the fast spreading epidemic.
Mohamed Hassan Abdi rahman, Idale News Online Corresponding In Bakool said lack of clean water for consumption has increased the spread of the killer disease.
“The outbreak has been attributed to unhygienic conditions in some sections especially in this village, there is no clean water to drink as most of the boreholes in the area dried up,” said Mohmed Hassan.
He said the disease was first reported two days from someone who traveled to the village and now many people recuperating the disease.
Residents are worried that the small villages could be just as vulnerable to the outbreak due to lack of sufficient medicines and hospitals in the area.
Cholera is transmitted through contaminated drinking water and causes acute diarrhea, and the outbreak has been exacerbated by weeks of heavy rains in the region.
After a short incubation period of two to five days, the disease causes severe diarrhoea, draining the body of its water. The sudden and dramatic loss of fluid is often fatal.
