The Lebanese Ministry of Health announced the first cholera death in the country since the disease was detected in October.
The Minister of Environment in the Lebanese caretaker government, Nasser Yassin, had confirmed the development of a road map to combat the cholera epidemic in cooperation with international organizations, explaining that the organizations would support all places that provide water to the camps of the displaced Syrians to ensure their cleanliness, and will support all sewage stations and pumping water with diesel, especially in camps Displaced people in Baalbek, Akkar, Central Bekaa and West Bekaa, in addition to putting chlorine in all water and pumping stations.
This came in a statement today, Wednesday, following a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Najib Mikati today at the Grand Serail in Beirut. To discuss ways to combat the cholera epidemic with international organizations.
Yassin explained that the Ministry of Energy will be asked to set up a service line for all sewage and pumping stations to operate them permanently, in addition to launching awareness campaigns in all places that witness overcrowding.
