The Ministry of Health reported on Thursday that Lebanon has a cholera outbreak in the northern Akkar governorate, marking the first instance of the disease the nation has seen since 1993.
This occurs at a time when the sickness, which has already claimed the lives of nearly 40 people in neighbouring Syria, is on the rise there.
And the Lebanese Ministry of Health reported that the first case of cholera was discovered on Wednesday in northern Lebanon’s Akkar Governorate.
It is the first occurrence in Lebanon since the last cholera outbreak in 1993, according to the ministry, which also noted that “the patient’s health is stable and he is undergoing treatment in the hospital.”
Accordingly, the Ministry of Health has established a crisis cell with experts and professionals to address the cholera outbreak, according to what the Ministry of Health was reported as saying by the National News Agency.
As a result of consuming tainted food or water, cholera commonly affects residential areas with poor sewage systems or a lack of access to clean drinking water. It causes diarrhoea and vomiting.
Neighboring According to the United Nations, the ongoing conflict in Syria since 2011 has damaged roughly two-thirds of the country’s water treatment plants, half of its pumping stations, and a third of its water tanks. Since September, several governorates have experienced cholera outbreaks for the first time since 2009.
Between 21 thousand and 143 thousand individuals die as a result of the illness each year, which affects between 1. 3 million and 4 million people worldwide.
The first cholera case to be reported in Lebanon since 1993
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