Hospitals in Sudan's Kassala manage cholera cases after outbreak: Video
Hospitals in Wad al-Hulaywah locality, in Sudan’s eastern state of Kassala, have seen a surge in patient admissions following an outbreak of cholera.
Sudan's health minister, Haitham Ibrahim, declared a cholera epidemic on Saturday after weeks of heavy rain contaminated drinking water in the war-torn country.
The decision was made in collaboration with authorities in Kassala state, United Nations agencies, and experts after the "discovery by the public health laboratory of the cholera virus," the health minister said.
"We are declaring a cholera epidemic because of the weather conditions and because drinking water has been contaminated," Ibrahim was quoted as saying.
Sudan has been grappling with one of the world's worst humanitarian crises since war broke out in April 2023.
