2023-09-22 09:32:00
Medical sources confirm that thousands of people have become victims of dengue fever, and hardly a house in Gedaref is devoid of a patient with the deadly fever, while hospitals and private and public treatment centers receive infected people around the clock.
Khartoum – Khaled Fathi
Published on: September 22, 2023: 01:32 PM GST Last updated: September 22, 2023: 01:58 PM GST
In a new humanitarian disaster in Sudan, dengue fever swept through Gedaref State with extreme ferocity, and quickly turned into an epidemic that has long affected almost every home there.
In detail, identical sources revealed to Al Arabiya.net that Al-Gadarif, which is approximately 414 kilometers east of the capital, Khartoum, is experiencing catastrophic health conditions that the health authorities there were helpless in the face of.
On the other hand, medical sources confirmed to Al Arabiya.net that thousands of people have become victims of dengue fever, and hardly a house in Gedaref is devoid of a patient with the deadly fever, while hospitals and private and public treatment centers receive new infections around the clock.
In light of these serious repercussions, citizens of Gedaref who spoke to Al Arabiya.net accused the state government and its health authorities of inability and failure, and said that the response to the epidemic was below the required level, as is usual when any pandemic occurs there, and they attacked the anti-epidemic campaigns with extreme ferocity, describing them as superficial campaigns. .
In this context, Muwatin revealed to Al Arabiya.net that the value of laboratory tests and treatment has doubled to exorbitant numbers that exceed the capabilities of patients and their families, who are suffering from poverty, the harshness of life, and the vast majority of them losing their sources of income and savings after the outbreak of war in Sudan.
Soon – as was usual – crisis merchants rose to the surface to invest in people’s suffering and pain, in an effort to make huge sums of money, especially when dengue fever medicines gradually disappeared from pharmacies, making it difficult to obtain them and there was no escape from resorting to the black market to provide the required medicines.
Dengue fever is spread by a type of mosquito called Aedes, and the disease is more common in areas with a tropical and subtropical climate.
As for its symptoms, dengue fever usually begins suddenly, causing fever, chills, severe headache, pain when moving the eyes, extreme fatigue, and severe generalized body pain, especially in the back, legs, and joints. These aches are often so severe that the illness has been called “bone-aching fever” or “bone-breaking fever.”
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