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A doctor treating cholera died of the same disease at the 70th Sana'a Hospital
Medical sources in Sanaa reported the death of a doctor working at the Diarrhea and Cholera Treatment Center of Al-Sabeen Hospital in Amanah, in the capital.
A pediatrician, Dr. Mohamed Abdel Wahed Abdel Moughni, a 60-year-old doctor at the Diabetes and Diabetes Treatment Center at Sabine Hospital in Sanaa, has died of cholera.
The source explained, according to the website of the new Arab, that the symptoms of the disease appeared on the doctor on March 24 and were then treated at the center where he works, after confirmation of his cholera, but that his state of health he's deteriorated and died five days later.
The source said the deceased doctor was working in the hospital's cholera treatment center since the beginning of the epidemic in the country. He provided patients with medical care and treatment for hundreds of them.
According to a report published by the Department of Epidemiological Surveillance of the Yemeni Ministry of Health and Population in Sana'a, the total number of cases and presumed cases of cholera last Thursday in Sanaa reached 864 people, of whom 3 died .
According to the report, the Bani al-Harith Branch directs the cases of 180 cases, followed by a 156-case management and the Seventies Branch with 128 deceased cases, and the People's Directorate in fourth place with 112 cases, followed by the direction of the net 75 cases, then by the Directorate of the Revolution with 52 cases. Azal with 43 cases, followed by the Old Sanaa Branch with 28 cases of which one died, and the Directorate of Liberation with 28 cases.
According to the United Nations, the total number of cases of infection and suspicion of cholera and acute watery diarrhea in Yemen, from the beginning of the year to mid-March this year, is 109,000 people and 190 people died during the same period.
According to the organization, the total number of cases and suspected cases of cholera in the past year was 295,000 cases, of which 400 died, one-third of children under five years, confirming that the incidence rate has decreased in 2011, 75% compared to 2017.
Nashwan News
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