Dengue spreads with Aden wastewater

Posted in Aden tomorrow on 16 – 03 – 2019

Report / Abdel Salam Aref:
After four years of disappearance, the dengue virus has re-emerged in the interim capital of Aden, killing more than four people in the city of Mansoura, according to medical sources. Four dengue deaths, two young men, a woman and a girl within 48 hours, infected with the same virus.
She added that the epidemic was spreading in parallel with the expansion of sewer points in the streets and neighborhoods. Abdel Rahman Mohsen, a resident of the Mansoura Branch, was transferred to Al Naqib Hospital for treatment but died a few hours after arriving at the hospital. Aden has not provided any clarification or statement regarding the recurrence of dengue fever. Degree of preparation to receive and treat infected cases.
In the direction of Sheikh Osman, "sewer" sewer wells began to bloom in the streets, in the absence of competent authorities, which could again provoke the appearance of dengue, and called on the local authorities and the director of management to intervene urgently to solve the problem of sewage leaks and repair the water pumps.
Silence and ignorance
Wastewater surrounds several residential neighborhoods and spills into streets and schools. The risk of drowning in children and students has become one of the causes of the spread of dengue fever, with mosquitoes still settling in stagnant water. Worse still, these waters mingle with heaps of garbage, emit odors and are stinky, intolerable, and surround the mosques, so that smells pervade the atmosphere of prayer. The inhabitants suffer from these odors and the difficulty of passage that has created isolated islands, including stone bridges for the passage of pedestrians, hiding their breath from the excessive odor of the odors that reach their homes and even drove them away. to their room.
The dengue outbreak in Mansoura district is due to persistent rash and build-up of garbage on the streets in the absence of the full role of local authorities and the Office. Aden's health, as well as the absence of spraying and monitoring campaigns and monitoring of marshes and sewers, as well as prevention and prevention programs to combat And take all preventive measures necessary to eliminate mosquito breeding sites and sites and causes of disease.
Citizens of the Mansoura leadership complained of the eruption of sewers and ponds, as well as citizens complaining of malaria and dengue lesions caused by obstructions in the sewer system, become obsolete, resulting in blockages and eruption in the streets of Mansoura.
Dengue is transmitted by the zebra mosquito, which is endemic and proliferating in fresh and stagnant waters.
Can kill
Symptoms of the infection include headache, pain behind the eyes, pain in the joints, muscles, back, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, fever and rashes. It can also develop into haemorrhagic fever, causing rapid and sudden shock and haemorrhage in the form of subcutaneous haemorrhagic spots, and can progress to cerebral hemorrhage, coma and death.
Some are due to frequent skin rashes, the inability to regulate and modernize private networks and the authorities' inability to find quick and effective solutions, despite complaints from parents and requests for remedial action. the situation before it worsens. The Water and Sanitation Foundation remains silent and ignored, despite the obvious truth that is not hidden from view.
Citizens of Aden suffer from a lack of awareness of methods of preventing and vaccinating the risk of fatal dengue, due to the weak awareness process by the relevant health authorities, which may explain the extent of the disease , the ignorance of the citizens and the lack of knowledge of the people concerned. This disease and a number of other diseases.
On the road to a street in Mansoura, a woman of the fifth decade of age stands on the sidewalk, trying to cross it with difficulty, making stones and car tires as a way of overcoming obstacles. the road filled with sewers, she said that her face was angry, preferring not to mention her name. "We see it as a source of joy and a place to visit, we see it as a real disaster that threatens our lives and cancels out what remains of our joy.The spread of wastewater means the return of disease."

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